Garden-Extract

Happy Gardeners

2010-01-27T13:14:00.000+02:00

Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

Bertrand Russell

Sweet Disorder

2009-12-29T12:47:00.001+02:00

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder but it has to be
judiciously arranged.

Vita Sackville West

Obey to Command

2009-12-23T12:45:00.003+02:00

Nature, to be commanded must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon

Knowledge Is Like A Garden...

2009-12-18T12:13:00.001+02:00

Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

African proverb

The Garden Fair

2009-12-13T12:41:00.001+02:00

How fair is a garden amid toils and
passions of existence.

Benjamin Disraeli

Stretching Things

2009-12-08T14:38:00.001+02:00

Imagination cannot stretch much further than a giraffe.

No End In Site?

2009-12-03T12:38:00.000+02:00

There is no "The End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished; a painter can frame his picture; a composer notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.

Mirabel Osler

Farmer > Emperor

2009-11-10T15:17:00.000+02:00

I would rather be on my farm than an emperor of the world.

George Washington

First Things First

2009-11-07T17:38:00.000+02:00

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

Are Bugs Meek?

2009-11-04T15:34:00.001+02:00

Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with them.

Eisner

Detail=Time

2009-11-01T15:27:00.000+02:00

Attention to detail and time have an unhealthy relationship - you'll seldom see attention to detail without time.

Grafting the New

2009-10-29T15:25:00.000+02:00

Only a fool will build in defiance of the past. What is new and significant always must be grafted to old roots.

Bela Bartok

Be...er kind to Bees

2009-10-26T15:22:00.001+02:00

When the bee comes to your house let her have beer. You may want to visit the bee's house one day.

Congolese proverb

Texture erotica

2009-10-23T07:29:00.001+02:00

Texture is a language. It is braille for the brain. A fondling of the eyes.

How To Best Water Your Garden

2009-10-19T07:34:00.000+02:00

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.

Lou Erickson

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Mediocrity's antidote

2009-10-17T13:05:00.001+02:00

The petals of a flower are protection against mediocrity

Gardeners Intentions

2009-10-14T13:22:00.000+02:00

Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise.

Michael P. Garafalo

Garden Euphemisms

2009-10-11T14:46:00.001+02:00

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

Robert Harbison

What is a Weed?

2009-10-08T07:44:00.000+02:00

When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

Anonymous

Why Hurry?

2009-10-05T14:42:00.001+02:00

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao Tzu

What is the Best Fertilizer?

2009-10-02T14:40:00.000+02:00

The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow

Anonymous

Explaining Miracles

2009-09-29T14:33:00.001+02:00

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

Robert Brault

Arrive at the New Way

2009-09-26T14:30:00.000+02:00

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

Henry Miller

Study The Ground

2009-09-23T14:12:00.001+02:00

There is no such thing as a style fitted for every situation; only one who knows and studies the ground well, will ever make the best of a garden, and any "style" may be right where the site fits it.

William Robinson

Digging for God

2009-09-20T21:17:00.000+02:00

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

George Bernard Shaw