You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.

~Author Unknown

I thought it would be nice to publish a quote now and then (every week sound good?).  I want to keep track of them here.  Every time I put up a new quote it will become the “title” of this page, and the old quote will be added to the page itself.  Eventually I hope to end up with a long list of great (and the occasional not so great) quotes.  I will try to stick as close to the topic of gardening as possible, but I’m sure the rare inspirational, photographic or just plain funny one will sneak on in.

Hope you enjoy them.

~Stephanie

Quote 1: Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.  ~Author Unknown

Quote 2: In gardens, beauty is a by-product.  The main business is sex and death.  ~Sam Llewelyn

Quote 3: Don’t wear perfume in the garden – unless you want to be pollinated by bees.  ~Anne Raver

Quote 4: Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. ~ Phillip K Dik

Quote 5: Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.  ~Orson Scott Card

Quote 6: The garden is the poor man’s apothecary.  ~German Proverb

Quote 7: Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise.  ~Michael P. Garafalo

Quote 8: Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.  ~Douglas William Jerrold, about Australia, A Land of Plenty

Quote 9: In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.  ~Frank McKinney Hubbard

Quote 10: God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.  ~Author Unknown

Quote 11: Just because you’ve only got houseplants doesn’t mean you don’t have the gardening spirit – I look upon myself as an indoor gardener.  ~Sara Moss-Wolfe

Quote 12: Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.  ~Mrs. C.W. Earle

Quote 13: …the ultimate challenge for the bonsai designer is to expose the essence of the tree. ~ Herb L. Gustafson

Quote 14: Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity.  ~Lindley Karstens

Quote 15: You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~ Unknown Author