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“Gardening gives you an appreciation for the strength of life, but it also shows you its fragility.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“One good thing about the rain is that it is not only destructive, in that it can bring dead plants back to life.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Managers and leaders should develop talent like cultivating a garden, nurturing growth and potential.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“Whaddya mean you don't farm or garden? You mean you get all your food purely as a consooomer?”
― Jarod Kintz, World Farming Championship

“He asked that roses be planted on his grave. When I checked, a few years ago, a scrappy red rose was blooming there.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses

“Growing your own food is like printing your own money.”
― Ron Finley

“I spotted Poe immediately. He was raking the leaves around his tree home, a lovely aspen. The whiteness of its bark seemed brighter than the other trees, the knotholes darker; the moss creeping up the south side was luxurious with fat purple flowers, and the leaves were a riot of green in every shade with veins of pure gold. It was, in short, the prettiest tree in the Kyrrðarskogur, which was Wendell's doing, but Poe was clearly taking his responsibilities as the owner of such a fine specimen seriously. He had built a trellis against the tree, up which climbed a vine of wild roses, and he had made little furrows in the ground to irrigate the tree's roots.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“I cannot tell you the satisfaction one gets from having planted and loved a garden,â€� she’d declare. ‘To be able to leave even a small patch of this earth more beautiful and bountiful than it was when one arrived.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming

“I love how the garden brightens after getting drenched by rain.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Because New Jersey is the “Garden State,â€� I connected the word gardening to what was around me: large fields of grass for horse farms broken up by occasional forests, orchards, or corn fields that then abutted abruptly into cookie cutter housing developments and their smaller dollops of grass. That we lived in the smack middle of the state only solidified the association

garden = grass”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“I’d move to trim the front hedges by hand in an insane act of “yard maintenance.â€� This act of kaiju sized bonsai left me exhausted to attempt any more complex yard acts, but it did give me time to ponder the control a hand tool can provide.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“I could attempt to Great Escape the rubble out bit by bit in the trash, but that would take who knows how long”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“My avant garde planters complete, they now yearned to be occupied.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“Infinite possibilities stared at my as I began dreaming about April showers and May flowers.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“Ambient temperature and sunlight, those are the only elements that big ball of gas in the sky can influence in plant selection, right? Nope!
Soil temperature is a critical component of successful growing, but is far from a dealbreaker.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“When you do a poor job keeping track of where things are planted and what their maturity times are, it can lead to a bit of a nightmare as you plant things on top of each other, never quite sure what’s a weed and what’s intentionally there. When performed properly, it’s an amazing feeling to harvest something then immediately know there’s a plant that you’ve chosen waiting to fill that freshly opened soil.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“Myron settled back behind a shrub. There were lots of shrubs around here. Everywhere one looked. there were shrubs of various sizes and shapes and purposes. Rich blue bloods must really like shrubs, Myron decided. He wondered if they had any on the Mayflower.”
― Harlan Coben, Back Spin

“Anyone can be a greenthumb!
Nature intended it!”
― Nate Macy, Benefits of worm castings: My story

“The prettiest flowers are the smallest.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Sunflower seeds on their cushion lie in a pattern of interlacing circles, all in sober tones of gray that seem to repent the wanton flowering of summer. Jade green soybeans in bristly, dark-brown pods and rich yellow corn in faded husks. It is a near miracle to pull tapering orange carrots out of the ground or dark-red beets; sweet potatoes most of all, so varied in shape and size, of such a golden color. The slanting sun is warm, the sky above the tawny earth is of deepest blue. The gardener harvests much that was never planted.”
― Harlan Hubbard, Payne Hollow: Life on the Fringe of Society

“You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take of your own garden and master the art of gardening.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts

“Gardening offers opportunities to explore, create, and become self-sustainable.”
― Noah William Smith, How to Feel Calm, Cool and Collected

“As early humans moved about, they were accompanied by a whole entourage of creatures they had come to depend on, or learned to coexist with â€� not only their crop plants and domesticated animals, which they carried with them deliberately, but also the creatures that had adopted them during their lengthy process of developing agriculture and animal husbandry and building habitations and cities, roads and canals, seaports and fortifications. To quote Anderson [Edgar Anderson, Plants, Man, and Life:]

‘Unconsciously as well as deliberately man carries whole floras about the globe with him, he now lives surrounded by transported landscapes, and our commonest everyday plants have been transformed by their long associations with us so that many roadsides and dooryard plants are artifacts. An artifact, by definition, is something produced by man, something which we would not have if man had not come into being. That is what many of our weeds and crops really are.”
― Richard Orlando, Weeds in the Urban Landscape: Where They Come from, Why They're Here, and How to Live with Them

“Waysaving is your one stop solution to artificial plants and greenery for home decoration and adding a touch of green to the place. We have a wide range of artificial plants to make your home or office a better place to be for everyone.

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― Waysaving

“A garden heals the saddened heart
Its fruit brings light out of the dark

A passing bee, in zigging zee’s
Wakes up your eyes so you can see

Away from those who brought you hurt
Your soiled feet find love in dirt

So from your crown, down to your toes
Your heart heals as your garden grows.”
― Florence Virginia Stephenson

“Gardening marks, as clearly as any activity, the joining of nature and culture. The gardener makes nothing, but rather gathers what God has made and shapes it into new and pleasing forms. The well-designed garden shows nature more clearly and beautifully than nature can show itself.”
― Alan Jacobs, Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant

“A Garden Epitaph by Stewart Stafford

From a verdant birth,
Two roses entwined together,
A union withered from the earth,
Root quest in envenomed weather.

Green fingers pruned with ill will,
Each barb taken to wounded hearts,
Cut natures freed of earthly swill,
Two crimson blooms, beyond scars.

Master gardener, just hear me,
If you see devotion, leave it be,
In silent witness, wonders see,
Lest you hasten obsequies.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I say: Once you go green
You won't let the blues in.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“Anger and even fury. I have no other motivation. Anger about the senseless distraction. The only thing that keeps me going is anger. I don't have any love in me at all. I hate community. Two things make me furious. Spiritualism, and community. People who talk about community want to manage other people. I grew up in a village. And people say that's a community, but it isn't. It's a lot of individuals, following the rules. And spiritualism, spiritual people are often very greedy, avaricious, and waste a hell of a lot of time. Nobody deserves what they are promised by spiritual people. And some people promise them eternal life. I think it's a horrific punishment to get eternal life. Ordinary people should never have such punishment visited on them”
― Bill Mollison

“Anne Hathaway's Garden by Stewart Stafford

In Stratford, lies a garden's tended hair,
Two lovebirds, Avon swans, nested there.
Anne kept counsel as Shakespeare's bride,
United home and clan over distance wide.

Pestilence, flood and war roared with fright,
This English idyll thrived in the pastoral light,
Rose, rosemary pruned with nurturing care,
Floral Tudor fireworks, exploding fragrant air.

The Bard, swansong past, returned to her,
Wooed Anne with words, the heartbeat spur,
To walk and reminisce among the green,
Sparked a fire that life apart rendered lean.

Anne Hathaway's garden outlived them all,
Paralleled words, evergreen, as in virgin scrawl.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford