nurturing plants Quotes

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.

When the young woman leans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits open until her milk runs.

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the store And the dimes are the things that he needs, And I've been to buy them in seasons before But have thought of them merely as seeds; But it flashed through my mind as I took them this time, "You purchased a miracle here for a dime."

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce the most glorious flowers, which will bear the sweetest fruit. A good gardener plants them all, tends and nurtures them, and wishes them well. Optimism is the best fertilizer.

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.