Most every gardener has a favorite quote or saying (like the ones the weekly DG newsletter has at the top). I'm collecting them for a garden club project. If you have one that you wouldn't mind sharing, please post it on the thread, and we'll all enjoy them. Thanks. (My favorite is, "Beauty is our connection with the divine.") (I don't know the source for that one, but include your source or person if you do know it.)
Garden Quotes
My favorite quote comes from poet, Paul Valery; "A poem is never finished, only abandoned".
I changed the Valery quote to:
"A garden is never finished, only abandoned"
Most gardeners I know feel their garden is in a state of constant creation and recreation.
Dove
"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." - J.M. Barrie
;o)
"Take a peek at my bloomers".....
“If you have beautiful plants, it doesn’t mean your garden is beautiful.
Something is complete when everything works together.”
“You accept death. You don’t take the plants out, because they still look good. And brown is also a color.”
“The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.”
Piet Oudolf
these are all great
I love reading them
Not a quote, but a poem with some nice quotes in it :-)....
He Knows No Winter
He knows no winter, he who loves the soil,
For, stormy days, when he is free from toil,
He plans his summer crops, selects his seeds
From bright-paged catalogues for garden needs.
When looking out upon frost-silvered fields,
He visualizes autumn's golden yields;
He sees in snow and sleet and icy rain
Precious moisture for his early grain;
He hears spring-heralds in the storm's ' turmoil
He knows no winter, he who loves the soil.
-SUDIE STUART HAGER
I REALLY like that , gemini, thanks!
I have 2 quotes , that I like.
"In the garden, my soul is sunshine" -The Koran
And my favorite,
"Earth laughs in flowers." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is one I saw somewhere--
'A rose can say I love you,
Orchids can enthrall,
But a weed bouquet in a chubby little fist,
Oh my, that says it all!'
Who said; "Come into my garden, my roses would like to meet you" ?
Won't you come into the garden?
I would like my roses to see you.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
That's it! Thanks :-)
He also wrote
"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. "
"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. "
and
"Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. "
Ric
I remembered him from a college course.
Googled the first two quotes..... lol!
Ric