Re: Famous Gardening Quotes

OhioGardener on 7/15/2019, 2:57 pm

A gardener's best tool is the knowledge from previous seasons. And it can be recorded in a $2 notebook. ~ Andy Tomolonis

PVPind on 7/18/2019, 9:31 am

“The first year it sleeps, the second year it creeps, the third year it leaps.”

OhioGardener on 7/29/2019, 9:23 am

"A good gardener always plants 3 seeds – one for the bugs, one for the weather and one for himself."
~ Leo Aikman

OhioGardener on 8/19/2019, 3:58 pm

Dan in Ct on 8/22/2019, 7:20 am

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
–Confucius (551 BC–479 BC)

OhioGardener on 9/11/2019, 6:08 pm

"Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing, it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips."

~ Jean Giraudoux

OhioGardener on 10/17/2019, 8:47 pm

"A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future."
~ Denis Waitley

**Scorpio Rising** on 10/19/2019, 1:25 pm

And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.

Oscar Wilde

**sanderson** on 10/20/2019, 4:30 pm

@Scorpio Rising wrote:And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.

Oscar Wilde

Poetic way of describing

OhioGardener on 11/2/2019, 7:36 pm

“All the world’s problems can be solved in a garden.”

~ Bill Mollison

**sanderson** on 11/4/2019, 4:23 am

OG, You find so many good ones.

countrynaturals on 11/5/2019, 1:47 pm

Here's one from 9 years ago, right here.

@LaFee wrote:The amount of time that my garden needs me is astonishingly minimal.

The amount of time that I need my garden is pretty substantial.

**sanderson** on 11/5/2019, 4:32 pm

OhioGardener on 11/13/2019, 4:43 pm

Plants and soil are my therapist and gym all in one. ~Anne M. Estes

**Scorpio Rising** on 11/13/2019, 7:31 pm

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
- Michael Pollan

markqz on 11/28/2019, 2:18 pm

In forty years of medical practice, I have found only
two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally
important for patients with chronic neurological diseases:

music and gardens.

Oliver Sacks
BrainPickings.org

countrynaturals on 11/28/2019, 3:30 pm

@markqz wrote:
In forty years of medical practice, I have found only
two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally
important for patients with chronic neurological diseases:

music and gardens.

Oliver Sacks
BrainPickings.org

2 of my favorite things. I love you

(Love your new avatar.)

OhioGardener on 12/16/2019, 9:23 am

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."

~ William Blake

Dan in Ct on 12/27/2019, 10:39 am

I don't think he is famous but I got this from Sal Gilbertie's book, Small Plot, High Yield Gardening and I paraphrase.
"Good gardening facilitates photosynthesis." I don't know if it can get more succinct than that.

OhioGardener on 12/27/2019, 11:34 am

@Dan in Ct wrote:"Good gardening facilitates photosynthesis." I don't know if it can get more succinct than that.

Yep, reminds me of this:

Famous Gardening Quotes - Page 3 Pamela10

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