In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Louise Beebe Wilder
Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens. Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will find that my compositions in gardening are altogether after the Pindaric manner, and run into the beautiful wildness of Nature without affecting the nicer elegancies of art. Addison
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like a rose . . . More exquisite and precious, When shared with others. Jane Oechsle Lauer
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eyes level with her smallest leaf, and take an insects view of its plain. Thoreau
Of coures . . . people go both ways . . . Scarecrow to Dorothy on the yellow brick road
I too have a new plaything, the best I ever had, a woodlot. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A garden is a place arranged for promenades and at the same time for the recreation of the eyes. But it is also
an accessory to the house, serving it as an accompaniment, an environment; and, within certain limits, it is simply
another apartment, an annex of the house. Therefore, how can the art which built and adorn the dwelling be refused
the right to interfere in this exterior house? Vitet
Just living is not enough . . . One must have sunshine,freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Anderson
If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants,
as with a robe of imbroidered worke, set with orient pearles, and garnished with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels ?
. . . The delight is great but the use greater, and joyned often with necessitie. John Gerarde
If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinthus, for they would feed my soul. The Koran
