When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

In green old gardens, hidden away
From sight of revel and sound of strife,
Here have I leisure to breathe and move,
And to do my work in a nobler way;
To sing my songs, and to say my say;
To dream my dreams, and to love my love;
To hold my faith, and to live my life,
Making the most of its shadowy day.

~ Violet Fane

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

~Albert Einstein

Whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of dirt.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

But there is a spirituality that is more like a lowly emanation from the most humble and earthbound things; that of a particular house, a garden, a neighborhood, a grove of trees, a pristine beach, a holy well, a field of wheat. Here spirituality is indistinguishable from enchantment, for in an enchanted world the things of nature and even of culture reek of holiness. Enchantment is nothing more than spirituality deeply rooted in the earth.

~ Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of the Everyday Life

I really like that one! (Like the "dirt" one too!)

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. ~ Anne Frank Looks like we're playing by ourselves here, Digit! Skybird

early evening drifts
o'er Skybird's garden flowers
toss in nature's sounds

S'

....and wile away the hours.

Ok, let's wax poetic together,
:-)
Skybird

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

~ Bill Watterson

but then again he was also the guy who had Calvin say to Hobbes:
"I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves! . . . HEY! What time is it?? My TV show is on!"

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

~ Joseph Joubert

Oh, I like that one, Connie. And, Digit, my knees are usually green--or black!

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This garden was made by doing impractical things we could not afford at the wrong time of year"

-- Henry Mitchell

I love Henry Mitchell.

Some people are always grumbling that roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
~ Alphonse Karr

My garden plan next year consists of letting nature run its course.

Of all of nature's garden vegetables, only the beet goes on . . . . ... .

digitS'

Plant a beanstalk.
Get a beanstalk.
Just the same as Jack.
Then if you don't like it,
You can always take it back!

But if your issue
Doesn't kiss you,
Then I wish you luck.
For once you've planted children,
You're absolutely stuck!

Every turnip green!
Every kidney bean!
Every plant grows according to the plot!

While with progeny,
It's hodge-podgenee.
For as soon as you think you know what kind you've got,
It's what they're not!

So
Plant a cabbage.
Get a cabbage.
Not a sauerkraut!
That's why I love vegetables.
You know what you're about!

Life is merry
If it's very
Vegetarian.
A man who plants a garden
Is a very happy man!

A vegitari-
Very merry
Vegetarian!