Our bodies

Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners.

~William Shakespeare

Help us

"Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth as without light nothing flowers."

- May Sarton

Success:

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wind chimes

Wind chimes in your yard will serenade garden creatures - squirrels, fairies and angels.

~Author Unknown

Garden fairies

Garden fairies come at dawn,
Bless the flowers then they're gone.

~Author Unknown

Always throw

Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can.

~Practical Magic, the movie.

Composting

"Composting is easier to do than to describe, and, like lovemaking, magic when you do it well."

~Sim Van der Ryn

This is not the time

"This is not the time to stay at home,
But to go out and give yourself to the garden.
The dawn of joy has arisen,
And this is the moment of union, of vision."

~ Rumi

Nature

Nature has undoubtedly mastered the art of winter gardening and even the most experienced gardener can learn from the unrestrained beauty around them.

~Vincent A. Simeone

At any given moment

At any given moment you can choose to grow where you are planted. You can yield to the subtle inclination that tugs at your heart to open yourself to the presence of God that is always there.

~James Finley

We always have

We always have a choice. We can let the garden of our life grow wild and unattended until it fills with weeds, or we can take up the proper tools and tend to our garden until we create a place of unimaginable loveliness.

~John Marks Templeton

I have

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

~Richard Diran