Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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.
I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.
When you go through something, like, you learn to appreciate little things - the birds, trees, flowers.
I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't ask questions!