Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. Thomas Jefferson
It used to be thought that our love of plants was an impractical but pure passion. But now, in the age of
environmental crisis, we're discovering that gardening is essential to human life. Jacqueline Heriteau
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of
a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof. Celia Thaxter
There is a great pleasure in working in the soil, apart from the ownership of it. The man who has planted a garden feels
that he has done something for the good of the world. author unknown
Our national flower is the concrete clover leaf Lewis Mumford
As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep
it, so nor will our Gardens . . . remain long in their
perfection unless they are also continually cultivated. John Evelyn
Nature has the will but not the power to realize perfection. Aristotle
I should only observe with regard to trees that Nature has been kinder to them in point of variety than even to its living forms. Gilpin
That is best which lieth nearest, Shape from that thy work of art. Longfellow
Wouldn't it be better to simply live what you believe, and teach by example . . . rather than by preaching. Daryl Ryman
Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved. Jack R. Harland
A garden never knows when its over. Paula Deitz
