Pause for thought

Posted:28 November 2011

No two gardens are the same.  No two days are the same in one garden.  ~Hugh Johnson

In gardens, beauty is a by-product.  The main business is sex and death.  ~Sam Llewelyn

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

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.  ~Author Unknown

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

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.  ~James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane

Weather means more when you have a garden.  Theres nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.  ~Marcelene Cox

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

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.  ~Author Unknown

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.  ~Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, 1871

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.  ~Author Unknown

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

Quotes copied with thanks from www.quotegarden.com/gardens