Gardening for Love Quotes

“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

“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