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Quotes of the Day for 12 March 2005 - Gardens

André LeNôtre was born on this day in 1613. He was called "Gardener of Kings and King of Gardeners", his most famous work would be the grounds of the royal castle at Versailles, which he designed for Louis XIV, the Sun King. As the local gardeners, of which I am not one, have been venturing out with their tillers lately, I thought it would be a good time for quotes on Gardens.

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
     - Hanna Rion, 1875 - 1924

I value my garden more for being full [of] blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
     - Joseph Addison, 1672 - 1719

To create a garden is to search for a better world. In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided by a vision of paradise. Whether the result is a horticultural masterpiece or only a modest vegetable patch, it is based on the expectation of a glorious future. This hope for the future is at the heart of all gardening.
     - Marina Schinz

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
     - Phyllis McGinley, 1905 - 1978

When I go into my 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, 1803 - 1882

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
     - Charles Dudley Warner, 1829 - 1900

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