Why try to explain miracles to our kids when you can just have them plant a garden.
- Robert Brault
When I go in my garden with a spade and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gardens are not made by singing “Oh how beautiful” and sitting in the shade.
-Rudyard Kipling
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
-Vita Sackville-West
To forget how to dig the earthand to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. - Francis Bacon
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
- Plutarch
In the end, there is really nothing more important than taking care of the earthand letting it take care of you.
- Charles Scott
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
- George Bernard Shaw
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.