From an aunt, long ago:  “Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.” – Robert Brault

My garden is my favorite teacher. – Betsy Cañas Garmon

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything – except itself. – May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep, 1968

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. – Author Unknown

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself.  And I find sufficient purpose for my day. – Robert Brault

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. – Charles Lamb, 1830

A garden is the best alternative therapy. – Germaine Greer

Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you. – Osho

I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. – F. Frankfort Moore, A Garden of Peace

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. – Walt Whitman

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. – W.E. Johns, The Passing Show

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. – Russell Page

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view. – H. Fred Dale

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved. – Frank Swinnerton

Take thy plastic spade, It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants, They are thy colours. – William Mason

Just because you’ve only got houseplants doesn’t mean you don’t have the gardening spirit – I look upon myself as an indoor gardener. – Sara Moss-Wolfe

Coffee.  Garden.  Coffee.  Does a good morning need anything else? – Betsy Cañas Garmon

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. – Mirabel Osler

A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever. – Richard Briers

Plant carrots in January and you’ll never have to eat carrots. – Author Unknown

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. – Lucy Larcom

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. – Hanna Rion

He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they’re needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment. – Sarah Flower Adams

Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise. – Michael P. Garafalo

Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity.  You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it. – S.J. Perelman

Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration. – Lou Erickson

Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. – Jim Rohn

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden. – Orson Scott Card