Gardening gives me fun and health and knowledge. It gives me laughter and colour. It gives me pictures of almost incrdeible beauty. John F. Kenyon
They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding,
and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte. Sir Thomas More
A garden must be looked unto and dressed, as the body. George Herbert
A man shall ever see, that, when age grows to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection. Bacon
The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry. James Hervey
And tis my faith, that every flower enjoys the air it breathes. William Wordsworth
Foster the traditions of America that those who follow may benefit from the Example of those who went before. Philip Dana Orcutt
There is, I conceive, scarcely any tree that may not be advantageously used in the various combinations of form and color. Gilpin
I believe that the days to come already feel the wonder of the days that have passed and will permit that wonder to endure and increase.
If this be blind faith, then every gardener has it, or he would never plant a seed. author unknown
I think there are as many kinds of gardening as of poetry. Addison
If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have
clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very
practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and understanding alike. Schiller
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. Rabindranath Tagore
