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Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
All gardening is landscape painting.
Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
Gardening is not a rational act.
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.