"There are wildflowers in my garden which, if they were in your garden, would be as pleasurable to you as they are to me." ~ Author Unknown "He who plants a garden, plants happiness." ~ Chinese proverb "One for the rook, one for the crow, one to rot and one to grow." ~ Folk saying "A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain, speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring." ~ William Carlos Williams [1883-1963] U.S. poet, novelist, physician "I call to mind the summer day, the early harvest mowing; the sky with sun and clouds at play, and flowers with breezes blowing." ~ John Greenleaf Whittier, U.S. poet, 1807-1892 "I pine for you and sometimes balsam." ~ E(lwyn) B(rooks) White [b.1899] U.S. poet "Methinks the reflections are never purer and more distinct than now at the season of the fall of the leaf, just before the cool twilight has come, when the air has a fine grain." ~ Henry David Thoreau [1817-1862] U.S. naturalist and author "All that in this delightful garden grows, should happy be, and have immortal bliss." ~ Edmund Spenser [1552-1599] English poet
"It is shocking, I declare! But what does Dollie care, When the beaux come flocking to her feet, Like little bees around a sweet little rose?" ~ Samuel Minturn Peck [1854-1886] Poet Laureate of Alabama, 1930-1938 "Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I crouch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly after summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now under the blossom that hangs on the bough." ~ William Shakespeare [1564-1616] English poet and dramatist "I took a day to search for God, and found him not; But as I trod by rocky ledge, through woods untamed, just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw his footprint in the sod." ~ (William) Bliss Carman [1861-1929] New Brunswick, Canada, poet and journalist in USA
"May I a small house and large garden have; and a few friends, and many good books, both true, both wise, and both delightful too!" Abraham Cowley [1618-1667] English poet "This was the goal of the leaf and the root, for this did the blossom burn its hour; This lttle grain is the ultimate fruit, this is the awesome vessel of power. For this is the source of the root and the bud... world unto world unto world remolded; This is the seed, compact of God, wherein all mystery is enfolded." ~ Georgie Starbuck Galbraith, "Seeds - The Yearbook of Agriculture", 1961 "There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals" ~ John Ruskin [1819-1900] English poet, artist, philosopher, critic, environmentalist, scientist "In the spring, at the end of day you should smell like dirt." ~ Margaret Atwood [b.1939] Canadian novelist and poet "Nature is not lavish of her beauties; They are widely scattered and occasionally displayed, to be selected with care, and gathered with difficulty." ~ George Gordon Noel Lord Byron [1788-1824] English poet "Colors are the smiles of nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs, as in the flowers." ~ Leigh Hunt [1784-1859] English poet, journalist, editor
"Spring has not come until you can put your foot on three daisies at once." ~ Anonymous "When the dogwood flowers appear, frost will not again be here." ~ Traditional American saying
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