Emily Saliers Quotes

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

I think plants present an opportunity for people to look closely at something and get invested in something that's truly very much outside of themselves.

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.

Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of it. Maybe in the past, you left in untended for a long time. You should know exactly what is going on in your own garden, and try to put everything in order. Restore the beauty; restore the harmony in your garden. If it is well tended, many people will enjoy your garden.

Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.

I'm gonna have to develop myself. I'm just going to do the best that I can do.

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.