A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape. Shenstone
Flowers in a city are like lipstick on a woman- it just makes you look better to have a little color. Lady Bird Johnson
Here odoriferous herbs and flowers grow . . . Useful to those who do their virtues know. author unknown
Unlike your favorite painting or sentimental vase, a landscape is alive and constantly changing. author unknown
The love of flowers is really the best teacher of how to grow and understand them. Max Schling
Our blessed Saviour chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for
many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our Gardens and Groves, where our Beds may
be decked with verdant and fragrant flowers, Trees and Perennial Plants, the most natural and instructive Hieroglyphics
of our expected Resurrection and Immortality. John Evelyn
If you would be happy your whole life long, Become a gardener. Old Chinese Proverb
Gardening is renewing and refreshing to your soul, especially when your doing it in a quiet rural setting. Accompained
by the nectar loving hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies. Its easy for the gardener to slip into a restorative meditation. author unknown
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has Genius, Power, and Magic in it. Goethe
It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision. Emerson
From the intimate union of art and nature, of architecture and landscape, will be born the best gardening compositions
which Time, purifying public taste, now promises to bring us. Edouard André
If well managed, nothing is more beautiful than a kitchen-garden. William Cobbett
