Quotations

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. My garden is slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that. What I need most of all are flowers, always, always." -Claude Monet at the age of 80

"At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows."

- William Shakespeare, Love's Labour Lost


"Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants." - Dorothy Parker

"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!' - John F. Kennedy

Gardening is not a rational act. - Margaret Atwood

I didn't know what narcissism was
until I beheld my own narcissus.
- Charles Kuralt