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"
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
-Nora Roberts
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"
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
-Martin Cruz Smith
The sun is new each day.
-Heraclitus "Heraclitus"
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
-Michael Pollan
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
Nature does nothing uselessly.
-Aristotle
