"It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dusk,so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought." (James Douglas, "Down Shoe Lane"
"Gardens are a form of autobiography" (Sydney Eddison, 1993 Horticulture magazine)
"When the sun is shining, I can do anything. " (W. Rudoph, 1940)
"To watch the corn grow,
and the blossoms set:
to read, to think, to love,
to hope , to pray,
these are the things,
that make us happy. " (John Ruskin 1819-1900)
"All cats like being the focus of attention." (Peter Gray, 1928)
"If every day is a repetition of life, ever dawn signs as it
were a new contract with existence,
If night and the starry sky speak to the meditative soul of God,
of eternity and the infinite, the dawn is the time.............." ( Amiel)
"If cats ruled the world: Dogs would have to curtsey or bow when a cat went by.
Cream would be available on tap.
Their humans would be in attendance at all times.
Mice would be available in a variety of tastes. Rain would be abolished."
(The MacFarlanes)
"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are."
(G. Ehrlich 1946. American travel writer and poet)
"I am two with Nature." (Woody Allen)
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way
they have to live than other things do. "
( Willa Cather 1873-1947 who wrote novels about pioneer life.)
"To forget how to dig the earth, and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
( Mahatma Ghandi)
"Everything that moves serves to interest and amuse a cat."
(Augustin Paradis de Moncrif 1687-1770,
French writer and poet, royal historiographer to King Louis XV of France)
"One of the most delightful things about a garden, is the anticipation it provides. " (W.E. Johns)
"I have never had any other desire so strong,
that I might be the master of a small house and a large garden. "
(Abraham Cowley, "The Garden" 1666)
"Life begins the day you start a garden." (Chinese Proverb)
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