#garden

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. ↗

— Ruth Stout

#inspirational #inspirational

The pond garden is an intricate phenomenon coalescing the intent and will of various people of influence living at various times. ↗

— Norris Brock Johnson

#history #japan #temple #life

The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#rain #river #love

I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun. ↗

— Henry Bellamann

#love

Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be highly satisfying. ↗

— David Wheeler

#motivation #motivational

There is always music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ↗

— Minnie Aumonier

#garden #music #trees #music

Well come and stand a little bit closer, breathe in and get a bit higher. You'll ever know what hit you when I get to you! ↗

— Savage Garden

#music #savage-garden #music

One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores. ↗

— Douglas Tallamy

#conservation #diversity #endangered #extinction #gardening

But gardening is none of that, really. Strip away the gadgets and the techniques, the books and the magazines and the soil test kits, and what you're left with, at the end of the day, is this: a stretch of freshly turned dirt, a handful of seeds scratched into the surface, and a marker to remember where they went. It is at the same time an incredibly brave and an incredibly simple thing to do, entrusting your seeds to the earth and waiting for them to rise up out of the ground to meet you. ↗

— Amy Stewart

#nature #patience #nature

This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and put a booby-trapped tree right in front of us. You gave us sex and told us not to do it. You played three-card monte with our souls from day one, and when we couldn't find the queen, you sent us to Hell to be tortured for eternity. That was your great plan for humanity? All you gave us here was daisies and fairy tales and you acted like that was enough. How were we supposed to resist evil when you didn't even tell us about it? ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#devil #evil #free-will #garden-of-eden #god