The earth laughs in flowers.
The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Flowers are the music of the ground. From Earth's lips spoken without sound.
The love of gardening is a pure delight and a pleasure that you can't measure.
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all, it teaches entire trust.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in—what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.