Jane Austin: “To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
Amos Bronson Alcott: “Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps.”
Germaine Greer: “A garden is the best alternative therapy.”
Benjamin Disraeli: “How fair is a garden amid toils and passions of existence.”
Dorothy Frances Gurney: “The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God’s heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.”
Thomas Jefferson: “Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God.”
Hanna Rion: “The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.”
Abram L. Urban: “In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.”
F. Frankfort Moore: “I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.”
John Ruskin: “There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.”
Francis Bacon: “Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.”
George Bernard Shaw: “The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him there.”
Anon: “Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.”
Anon: “Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.”
Holy Spirit: “And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden: and there He put the man whom He had formed.” (Genesis 2:8)
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