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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.