till [v] - To prepare (land) for the raising of crops, as by plowing and harrowing; cultivate
As part of my own prep, I love to read quotes to get perspective from other gardeners and growers through the years, as gardening is by no means a new activity for us humans.
Here are 12 of my recent favorite gardening quotes to help you clear your winter webs and make space for sowing the seeds of your own garden(s).
Life's a garden, dig it and you make it work for you -- Joe Dirt
However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow' -- Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
My garden is my beautiful masterpiece -- Claude Monet
A garden should make you feel you have entered privileged space -- a space not just set apart but reverberate -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer to poetry -- Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Plants want to grow; they are on your side as long as you are reasonably sensible -- Anne Wareham
To dream a garden and then plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world -- Stanley Crawford, A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm
We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting -- Carol Deppe, The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
Kind hearts are the gardens, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the flowers, kind deeds are the fruits. Take care of your garden and keep out the weeds. Fill it with sunshine, kind words & kind deeds -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn -- William Arthur Ward
What are your favorite quotes about gardening to add?
oh.. I have so many!! This one is a favorite reminder. "There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again".
ReplyDelete- Elizabeth Lawrence
I garden for so many reasons, but this one is HUGE. My children learn so much and on so many levels. I remember, vividly, gardening or just playing alongside my Grandmother, in her garden. The sights, the smells, the tastes. It truly shaped me, and I hope I am grounding my children in the same fertile earth of connection and experience. LOVE what your'e sharing. Keep it coming!