Garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
-Gertrude Jekyll "Gertrude Jekyll"
Quotations
Nature
-Gertrude Jekyll "Gertrude Jekyll"
Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awareness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life.
-Eugène Carrière
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
-William Ruckelshaus
"Business Week, 18 June 1990"
Just as rivers flow from east and west to merge with the one sea, forgetting that they were ever separate rivers, so all beings lose their separateness when they eventually merge into pure Being.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad"
The true nature of action is very difficult to understand. Therefore, one should know the nature of attached, detached and forbidden actions.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 4.17"
Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
-Francis Bacon
If you are dissatisfied or unhappy with any of your act or thinking, then too don't
try to change it, you will fail miserably. Transform your nature, your action and
thinking will change by themselves.
-Deep Trivedi
The earth laughs in flowers.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
-Bible "Bible"
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
-Linda Hogan
