My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.
H. Fred Ale
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.
Mirabel Osler
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
Minnie Aumonier
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Alice Walker
Where you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul
Spencer W. Kimball
Like a big mountain, a small garden stimulates, restores, and delights us, just as it poses challenges, promotes mastery, provides exercise and relieves monotony
Winifred Gallagher
If you really want to draw close to your garden, you must remember first of all that you are dealing with a being that lives and dies; like the human body, with its poor flesh, its illnesses at times repugnant. One must not always see it dressed up for a ball, manicured and immaculate
Fernand Lequenne
It's a sign of wisdom that seeds don't squander their energy all at once, instead calmly waiting until the time is right. Seeds aren't stupid
Midas Dekkers
The difference between weeds and flowers is the flowers are the easiest ones to pull out.
Unknown
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike
Evelyn
Gardening is something you learn by doing - and by making mistakes, like cooking, gardening is a constant process of experimentation, repeating the successes and throwing out the failures
Carol Stocker