Wednesday, April 25, 2012

A Different Kind of Palette

All gardening is landscape painting.
William Kent





A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan








Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank







I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
Martha Smith




I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney




I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson





I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
Phyllis Theroux




Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
Jean Anouilh







Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
Dogen Zenji




What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
Roy Rogers








Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
Oscar de la Renta








To dwell is to garden.
Martin Heidegger





Hope You enJoyed My Garden Tour!
More Later:)

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the tour of your amazing garden- WONDERFUL space! And I totally agree, it is another form of painting!

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  2. I LOVED your garden tour! come see mine http://artsyfartsyus.blogspot.com/2012/04/spring-stroll-2012.html

    I found you through Stephanie :)

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