Gardening Quotes Quotes

“Growing a business is a lot like growing a fruit tree. Ideally, a fruit tree will yield a lot of fruit from a little bit of soil rain and sun. And ideally, your business will yield a lot of profit from a little bit of capital.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

“You can get attached to plants when you lose faith in people.”
― Manuele Fior, 5,000 Kilometers Per Second

“When I was a little girl, my mother took great pains to interest me in learning to know the birds and wild flowers and in the planting garden. I thought that roots and bulbs and seeds were as wonderful as flowers, and the Latin names on seed packages as full of enchantment as the counting-out rhymes that children chant in the spring. I remember the first time I planted seeds. My mother asked me if I knew the Parable of the Sower. I said I did not, and she took me into the house and read it to me. Once the relation between poetry and the soil is established in the mind, all growing things are endowed with more than material beauty. (p. 12)”
― Elizabeth Lawrence, Gardening for Love: The Market Bulletins

“All Things Grow With Love”
― Thomas Robertson, Beneath the Covers of a Book

“All Things Grow With Love.”
― Thomas Robertson

“Touching dirt, or playing on the ground, isn't a death sentence. It's experimental and fun. Touch a bit of soil sometimes. Have a garden.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“even if you seem like the only one in all of North America who uses more natives than aliens, wildlife will be better off for your efforts.”
― Douglas Tallamy

“Gardeners are generous because nature is generous to them, and because they know what it means to read about something and not be able to get it. (p.24)”
― Elizabeth Lawrence, Gardening for Love: The Market Bulletins

“Ambient temperature and sunlight, those are the only elements that big ball of gas in the sky can influence in plant selection, right? Nope!
Soil temperature is a critical component of successful growing, but is far from a dealbreaker.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“Without a voice the flowers speak.”
― Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life

“Each day is a new flower, enjoy its beauty while it lasts.”
― Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life

“You can learn everything you need to know by gardening.”
― Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life

“One flower can transform your entire day.”
― Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life

“Gardens hold great truths - for those willing to get a little dirty.”
― Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life

“I wanted a home, absolutely, but it was a garden that I needed.”
― Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

“View the sun as your mother, she loves you and only wants the very best for you. So each time you go outside, she beams her loving warm rays on your head, knowing that it will caress you with her love. The sun, being a celestial object, is far more powerful than your heater and her rays are nurturing and healing to all who inhabit earth and venture out in her. So even a few minutes of sun in the morning, or evening can last for many hours, warming, your blood, bones and systems and giving you a feeling of wellbeing like no other.”
There is no mistake, that many of the early forms of mental health treatment involved patients sitting out in the sun, for a prescribed number of hours. The sun has a natural anti-depressant effect, and when this is realized in studies in your future, the sun will again be prescribed as a good way of balancing and healing your body, mind and spirit. Along with gentle, walking and gardening daily in nature, all are ways of keeping on an even-keel mentally and emotionally.”
― Sarah Rajkotwala, Fairy Sparkles

“Why did God, the creator give fairies free will and egos like humans on earth?
“God gave fairies an ego and mind of their own, so that they can create a self-sustaining world and paradise. It would have had to have been overseen by many people, and creators, if the fairies did not have free-will and egos. It is this set of traits that they use to earth’s advantage, to produce more flowers and grass and trees wherever it is needed. It is able to look after itself, on its own accord without it being dependent on its maker. Do you see?l”
― Sarah Rajkotwala, Fairy Sparkles

“Gum trees what is causing the loss of the bee populations especially in the northern hemisphere?
“The changing of chemicals, to harsher broad-acre varieties that wipe out weed seeds, the pre-emergent ones are affecting the pupae life cycle of the bees, wasps, beetles, frogs, flycatchers. In fact, all insect larvae, within five kilometres of spraying. If they want food crops in the future, they must stop using these chemicals.”
Thank you. I have been wondering what was going on there. So, what can the average person do about this problem?
“Stop using chemicals personally and only purchase organic produce from supermarkets, shops and markets, insist on it. Refuse to have any part in the wilful, wholesale destruction of the delicate insect/plant balance of the planet. Be or ‘bee’ part of the solution and not the problem!”
― Sarah Rajkotwala, The Year of Talking to Plants: The Plants and Fairies Talk in Their Own Words