Lou Erickson: Gardening
requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of
perspiration.
Kobayashi Issa:
"In the cherry
blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger."
Helen
Humphrey's The Lost Garden: The best gardens
are a perfect balance of order and chaos
Socrates: Beauty has a
short-lived reign.
Arab Proverb: "A good
book is like a garden carried in the pocket."
"To work in nature is to witness
miracles every day."
Rachel Carson: If I had influence with the good fairy…I
should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a
sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last
throughout life.
Ancient Chinese saying:
"Ere man is aware
That the Spring is here
The flowers have found it out"
To Daffodils
by Robert Herrick.
Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain'd his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray'd together, we
Will go with you along.
We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away,
Like to the summer's rain;
Or as the pearls of morning's dew,
Ne'er to be found again.
The Daffodils
by William Wordsworth
I wandered
lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
Continuous
as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never - ending line
Along the margin of a bay;
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance
The waves
beside them danced; but they
Out - did the sparkling waves in glee.
A poet could not be but gay.
In such a jocund company;
I gazed - and gazed - but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought
For often
when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.