Spreuken over Tuinieren
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Letter - 39 Spreuken
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
DetailA garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
DetailA good garden may have some weeds.
DetailA man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
DetailA person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
DetailA weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
DetailAll gardening is landscape painting.
DetailBut if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
DetailEverything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
DetailFlowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
DetailGarden as though you will live forever.
DetailGardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
DetailGardening is not a rational act.
DetailGardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
DetailHe plants trees to benefit another generation.
DetailHelp us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
DetailHow deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
DetailI am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.
DetailI do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
DetailI don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
DetailI grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
DetailI love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.
DetailI loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
DetailI plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
DetailI think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
DetailIf a tree dies, plant another in its place.
DetailIf we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
DetailIf you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
DetailIf you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
DetailIn search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
DetailIt is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
DetailIt is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
DetailIt is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
DetailIt will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
DetailMy neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
DetailOne lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
DetailPlants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
DetailRemember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
DetailShow me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
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