A garden is not made in a year; indeed it is never made in the sense of finality. It grows, and with the labour of love should go on growing. Frederick Eden
Bread feeds the body indeed, but the flowers also feed the soul. The Koran
The first law of a painting and of a picture on the soil is to be a whole. . . Without principles and without discernment one never attains veritable beauty. Edouard André
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each of us is a trustee of the past, so on the traditions of the past may we build today for a better and more beautiful tomorrow. author unknown
Much may be done with those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. Charles Colton
The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken
the better dividends they pay. H.W. Beecher
Minute beauties are proper in a spot precluded from great effects. Thomas Whately
Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great
difference in beholders. There is nothing so wonderful in any landscape as the necessity of being beautiful under which every landscape lies. Emerson
Let every man, if he likes of these, take what may please his minde, . . . observing this decorum, that according to his ground he do cast out his knots. John Parkinson
Will is the root, knowledge is the stem and leaves, and feeling is the flower. Sterling
I've never been without a garden, It's a lifetime challenge: a thing of beauty and a 3-D puzzle. Beatrice J. Elye
