A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.
