Lovely! Flower fairy puke! Guess it was a rough night.

EARTH LAUGHS IN FLOWERS! (Ralph Waldo Emerson)...

and

LIFE BEGAN IN A GARDEN!

(I have both as signs in my garden!)

"I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love." (we'll just ignore the following part that sounds almost like eugenics)
-Luther Burbank

"The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love."
-Luther Burbank

"A flower is an educated weed."
-Luther Burbank

"To dig or not to dig. That is the question"
I made it up, but it sounds like a quote that should come from the utility companies. LOL
........Liz

I have two signs in my garden at present...
one is "Gather Ye Roses While Ye May"
and the other is "What will I do when I can no longer dig?"

I'll be making more signs as time goes by, but
I confess, I recently purchased (okay, I splurged!)
on a Deluxe Poetry Stones kit, so I'll be making many,
many things with quotes and words for my garden.
Tis true, a bit spendy, but I plan to make many
splendid words!

Here is a link that might be useful: DELUXE POETRY STONES KIT

This one is not garden related, but maybe you will enjoy its wisdom. "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without". It had to come from the depression days.

This quote gave me enough courage to change jobs...and now I can spend more time in my gardens.

WHAT YOU RISK REVEALS WHAT YOU VALUE.

-Jeanette Winterson

OK -- someone probably used this already, but here it is again:
"A perennial is a plant that comes back next year -- unless it doesn't."
So true, so true!

If you kill it, just go buy another.

Too pessimistic?

"In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute shall reverse" Mark Twain

"So much time, so little to do. No strike that, reverse it." Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Not really garden related, but two of my favorites.

"IF YOU GIVE A WEED AN INCH, IT WILL TAKE A YARD"

DALIAH

I like fairies, and my mother told me about a cool quote she saw on some garden art. It said something like "Leave room in the garden for the fairies to dance". I don't remember exactly how it went. Does anyone out there know?

Those of you that make signs for your garden: how do you make them, and what materials do you use?

"If you'd have a mind at peace,
A heart that cannot harden,
Go find a door that opens wide,
Upon a lovely garden."

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
Iris Murdoch

"Half the interest of a garden
is in the constant exercise of
the imagination."

-Mrs. C. W. Earle, 1897

"Mother nature is so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest." ~Douglas William Jerrold, about Australia, A Land of Plenty

"Although an old man, I am but a young gardener."
Thomas Jefferson

"gardens are for sharing"

In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn

"No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden." ~Hugh Johnson

"My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view." ~H. Fred Ale

"To cultivate a garden and grow flowers from the sod is to go hand and hand with nature and walk very close to God"

helen steiner-rice

when my daughter was younger she gave me a flower pot with this quote on it & has been my favorite since

"Never plant in April what you won't even want to water in August."
--Gran
I say that to myself every spring.

DH and I are big readers. I found this right before we moved into our new house, when we were planning a room just for all our books:

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
--Marcus Tullius Cicero

And my favorite:

"Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get."
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Grow It! Don't Mow it

Just some fun advise:

"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
--Erma Bombeck

"I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden"
--Abraham Crowley

"I consider every plant hardy until I've killed it myself" -- from some tee shirt on some web site...

Newbie to this forum posting my favorite...it is attached to my computer and read often

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Anais Nin

Hi Every one,
here are my favorite quotes:
"Change the way you look at thing, thing you look at change."
i don't know whom author is, but i do like the quote. i painted a small wood board, and wrote that quote on it then hang up in my back porch.
tuanh

"I tried ...
..but...
it died."

karen

"Yes, in the poor man's garden grow
Far more than herbs and flowers--
Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind,
And joy for weary hours."

--Mary Howitt

Eden is my inspiration

-Anybody know where I can find a tree of life?

two of my favorite quotes are from Laurie Otto - whom i also posted as my gardening hero in another thread.

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, but rather borrow it from our descendants." - Laurie Otto

"If suburbia were landscaped with meadows, prairies, thickets, or forests, or combinations of these, then the water would sparkle, fish would be good to eat again, birds would sing and human spirits would soar." - Laurie Otto

A sign as you enter my daugter's front porch...
"Welcome. Now start weeding."

Remember always this one great truth there is dignity in toil

You can pray and pray for the crops to grow but first you must til the soil.

By my grandmother, Rhoda Moore

"What would you do if you knew you could not fail?"

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genious, power and magic in it."

"You have the power to create your own reality."

"The older the tree, the sweeter the music it makes in the breeze."

Are a few that come to mind just now....
Julie

"Growth takes time, be patient. And while you are waiting, pull a weed." Emily Barnes

Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts. - Mac Griswold.