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Don't
wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees.
~Anne Raver
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I love to read great quotes. They serve as such wonderful inspiration. I
hope you enjoy them as much as I do. Here are a few of my favorites (also sprinkled throughout the site)...
You must teach your children that the ground beneath
their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth
is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother.
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
~Native American Wisdom
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using
it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought
by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. ~Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we
do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle, 1855
It is
horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ~Ansel Adams
Our children may
save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where
we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear
weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might
not be a bad idea. ~Jimmy Buffet, Mother Earth News, March-April 1990
There is hope if people will
begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. ~Brooke
Medicine Eagle
When the soil disappears, the soul disappears. ~Ymber Delecto
We shall require
a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ~Albert Einstein
How can the spirit of the
earth like the white man?... Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore. ~Anonymous Wintu Woman
To
live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. ~Buddha
When
we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up.... When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers,
we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pinenuts. We don't chop down the trees. ~Wintu Indian,
quoted in Julian Burger, The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples, 1990
A human being is part of the whole, called
by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something
separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves
from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole [of] nature in its beauty.
~Albert Einstein, 1950
The activist is not the man who says the river is
dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. ~Ross Perot
I believe in God, only I spell
it Nature. ~Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted, 14 August 1966
We never know the worth of water till the well is
dry. ~Thomas Fuller
If
people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made
by God, they are called developers. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
The
love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies.
- Gertrude Jekyll
Though
I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that
you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
- Henry David Thoreau
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.
- Shigenori Kameoka
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
-
Thomas Fuller
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the
seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Flowers and fruit are
only the beginning.
In the seed lies the life and the future.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.
- Dan Bennett
I shut my eyes in order
to see.
- Paul Gauguin
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking
something different.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
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You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the
dirt. ~Author Unknown
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
~Walt Whitman
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. ~Author Unknown
Gardening is a
kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden;
you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. ~Lewis Gannit
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive. ~American Quaker Saying
Aerodynamically
the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying anyway. ~Mary
Kay Ash
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. ~Henry J. Tillman
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you
a lullaby. ~Langston Hughes
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning
how to grow in rows. ~Doug Larson
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
- Lady Bird Johnson
Flowers are love's truest language. -
Park Benjamin
To pick a flower is so much more satisfying than just observing it, or photographing it ...
So in later years, I have grown in my garden as many flowers as possible for children to pick.
- Anne Scott-James
I perhaps owe having become
a painter to flowers. - Claude Monet
None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones.
- Forbes Watson
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world
for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have
no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. - Georgia O'Keeffe
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful
reserve. - Henry David Thoreau
Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, open to the
glories of the stars, the beauty of the flowers, and the mystery of life. - R. Search- Anne Scott-James
None can have a healthy
love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones. - Forbes Watson
When you take a flower in your hand
and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most
people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want
to or not. - Georgia O'Keeffe
One of the most
attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. - Henry David Thoreau
Every child is
born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the flowers, and the
mystery of life. - R. Search
Let us be grateful to people who make us
happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the
snow. - Alice M. Swaim
As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating
with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but
that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I. - Celia Thaxter, 1835-1894
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a
rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. -
Henri Matisse
Between
every two pines is a doorway to a new world -- John Muir
What we are calling for is a revolution
in public education...When the hearts and minds of our children are captured by a school lunch curriculum, enriched with the
experience in the garden, sustainability will become the lens through which they see the world. -Alice Waters
More Great Quotes
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