You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

The 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.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.