There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
Linda Hogan
A flower is an educated weed.
Luther Burbank
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson