Flowers are beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us. Wolfgang von Geothe
Though an old man, I am but a young gardener. Thomas Jefferson
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in a strangers gardens. Douglas Jerrold
The fair-weather gardener, who will do nothing except when wind and weather and everytning else are favourable, is never a master of his craft. Canon Ellacombe
There is no purer, no more beautiful yellow in any of our wild flowers than the monkey-flower. W.H. Hudson
Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irespective of size or wealth. Vita Sackville-West
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. Abram L. Urban
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Walt Whitman
It has become fashionable to be old-fashioned in the garden. Leonard H. Robbins
When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, There is always the garden. Minnie Aumonier
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein
God and men, from Persephone downwards have picked flowers, and it strikes me as mean, foolish and damaging to the sensibilities of the human race, to train children to leave all flowers unpicked as they find them. author unknown
