y a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

nside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.

Sri Chinmoy

he garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

Larry Dossey, 1997

ur bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.

William Shakespeare

Gardens
part six

he first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates, the so-called cradle of civilization, where plants were first grown for crops by settled communities, garden enclosures were also constructed... Gardens emphasized the contrast between two separate worlds: the outer one where nature remained awe-inspiringly in control and an inner artificially created sanctuary, a refuge for man and plants from the burning desert, where shade trees and cool canals refreshed the spirit and ensured growth.

Penelope Hobhouse, Gardening Through the Ages, 1992, p. 11. 

ardens have the potential to satisfy nine basic human needs (subsistence, protection, affection, understanding, participation, leisure, creation, identity, freedom) across four existential states (being, having, doing and interacting).

Mike Steven, Lecturer in Landscape Studies, University of Westen Sydney, Australia

ne purpose of a garden is to stop time.

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

here are points of time, of distant memory, when the soul unites within the pattern of the universe. That union brings forth the understanding of life's harmony. So it should be  within the garden... 

Author Unknown

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