Gardening Quotes - Page 2

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.

By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.

As I leave the garden
I take with me a renewed view,
And a quiet soul.

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture - it won’t accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy’ time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

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.