nside the gardener is the spirit of the garden outside.

Mike Garofalo, Pulling Onions: Quips and Maxims of a Gardener

here is more pleasure in making a garden than in contemplating a paradise. 

Anne Scott-James 

ardening isn't a hobby anymore. It is a lifestyle, a paradigm shift. It is no longer about landscaped color or upgrades in the landscape. Gardening is about seeing. Gardening is about awareness.

Terry Hershey, Soul Gardening, p. 85

Gardening
part five

he glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Share the botanical bliss of garde-ners through the ages, who have cultivated philosophies to apply to their own - and our own - lives:  Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Alfred Austin, 1835-1913

ardener's , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone by.

Allen Lacy, The Gardener's Eye, 1992, p. 16

   ardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it a better neighbor. To other's eyes, all may look as well as could be expected, but a good gardener's eye sees more to be improved.

Robin Lane Fox

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