INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature – Gerard de Nerval

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden – Frances  Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life could change. – Buddha

This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden. – Rumi

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. – John Harrigan

Flowers are the music of the ground, from earth’s lips spoken without a word. Edwin Curran

Where flowers bloom so does hope. – Lady Bird Johnson

I must have flowers, always and always. – Claude Monet

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details – Natalie Angler

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous – Aristotle

Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little She achieves her work – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower – Albert Camus

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. – Albert Einstein

All my life through, The new sights of Nature Made me rejoice like a child – Marie Curie

Let us dance in the sun wearing wild flowers in our hair … – Susan Polis Schutz

Come forth into the light of things, Let nature be your teacher. – William Wordsworth

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. – Eckhart Tolle

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. – Greek proverb

Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years. – Unknown

Garden as though you will live forever. – William Kent

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. – Janet Kilburn Phillips.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. – Alfred Austin

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. – Claude Monet

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. – David Hobson

When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. – Minnie Aumonier

If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. – Robert Brault

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. – Allan Armitage

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. – Francis Bacon

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. – May Sarto

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. – Carl Linnaeus

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. – Luther Burbank

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. – Rabindranath Tagore

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. Sigmund Freud

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. – May Sarton

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. – Thomas Moore

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. – George Eliot

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. – Rabindranath Tagore

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. – Phyllis Theroux

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. – Ramakrishna

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. – Thomas Jefferson

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. – Author Unknown

In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. – Robert Breault

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.
– Author Unknown

The garden is the poor man’s apothecary. – German Proverb

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.- Mahatma Gandhi

Life’s a garden — dig it. – Gardening Saying

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. – Dalai Lama

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. – Hanna Rion

Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise.- Michael P. Garofalo

Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. – Lindley Karstens

Anybody who wants to rule the world should try to rule a garden first. – Gardening Saying

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. – Rumi

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. – Author Unknown

How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. – Benjamin Disraeli

Connection with gardens, even small ones, even potted plants, can become windows to the inner life.  The simple act of stopping and looking at the beauty around us can be prayer.”–  Patricia R. Barrett, The Sacred Garden 

Earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination.  Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature.  We recognize in it an Infinite Power. –  Karl Wilhelm Humboldt

There are points of time, of distant memory, when the soul unites within the pattern of the universe.  That union brings forth the understanding of life’s harmony.  So it should be within the garden … –  Author Unknown

 To plant in a garden is to believe in tomorrow. – Audrey Hepburn

INSPIRATIONAL POEMS

One Vast Garden – Sri Ananandamayi Ma

“I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe.

All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodies

are about in this garden in various ways ,

each has his own uniqueness and beauty.

Their presence and variety give me great delight.

Every one of you adds with his special feature to the glory of the garden.”

Fireflies in the Garden – Robert Frost

Here come real stars to fill the upper skies,
And here on earth come emulating flies,
That though they never equal stars in size,
(And they were never really stars at heart)
Achieve at times a very star-like start.
Only, of course, they can’t sustain the part.

Auguries of Innocence – William Blake

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

The Glory of the Garden –  Rudyard Kipling

Our England is a garden that is full of stately views,
Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues,
With statues on the terraces and peacocks strutting by;
But the Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets the eye.

For where the old thick laurels grow, along the thin red wall,
You’ll find the tool- and potting-sheds which are the heart of all
The cold-frames and the hot-houses, the dung-pits and the tanks,
The rollers, carts, and drain-pipes, with the barrows and the planks.

And there you’ll see the gardeners, the men and ‘prentice boys
Told off to do as they are bid and do it without noise ;
For, except when seeds are planted and we shout to scare the birds,
The Glory of the Garden it abideth not in words.

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose,
And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows ;
But they can roll and trim the lawns and sift the sand and loam,
For the Glory of the Garden occupieth all who come.

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing:-‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade
While better men than we go out and start their working lives
At grubbing weeds from gravel-paths with broken dinner-knives.

There’s not a pair of legs so thin, there’s not a head so thick,
There’s not a hand so weak and white, nor yet a heart so sick
But it can find some needful job that’s crying to be done,
For the Glory of the Garden glorifieth every one.

Then seek your job with thankfulness and work till further orders,
If it’s only netting strawberries or killing slugs on borders;
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden,
You will find yourself a partner In the Glory of the Garden.

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees
That half a proper gardener’s work is done upon his knees,
So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray
For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away!
And the Glory of the Garden it shall never pass away !