“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”
Marianne Moore
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
Oscar Wilde
“As is the gardener, so is the garden”
Proverb
“The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour”
“Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.”
William Shakespeare
“As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A garden is half-made when it is well planned. The best gardener is the one who does the most gardening by the winter fire.”
Liberty Hyde Bailey