You can bury a lot of troubles...

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

~Author Unknown~

Why try to explain miracles to...

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

~Robert Brault, ~

When you have done your best f...

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.

~Frank Swinnerton~

When weeding, the best way to ...

When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.  If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

~Author Unknown~

When one of my plants dies, I ...

When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too.

~Linda Solegato~

What a man needs in gardening ...

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~

Weather means more when you ha...

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.

~Marcelene Cox~

We have descended into the gar...

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

~Evelyn Underhill, Letters~

Unemployment is capitalism's w...

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

~Orson Scott Card~

Tomatoes and squash never fail...

Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.

~S.J. Perelman, Acres and Pains, 1951~

There is no gardening without ...

There is no gardening without humility.  Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

~Alfred Austin~

There can be no other occupati...

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

~Mirabel Osler~

The kiss of the sun for pardon...

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

~ Dorothy Frances Gurney, ""Garden Thoughts""~

The garden is the poor man's a...

The garden is the poor man's apothecary.

~German Proverb~

The best place to seek God is ...

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

~George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, 1932~

The best fertilizer is the gar...

The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.

~Author Unknown~

Science, or para-science, tell...

Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.

~Victoria Glendinning~

Plants give us oxygen for the ...

Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.

~Linda Solegato~

Plants cry their gratitude for...

Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.

~Astrid Alauda~

Plant carrots in January and y...

Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots.

~Author Unknown~