"The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession." -Phyllis McGinley
"Of winter's lifeless world each tree now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer's secret deep down within it's heart." - Charles G Stater
"Every gardener knows under the cloak of winter lies a miracle . . .a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dreams." - Barbara Winkler
"Don't knock the weather, nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while." - Kim Hubbard
"The fair-weather gardener, who will do nothing except when the wind and weather and everything else are favorable, is never master of his (her) craft. " - Henry Ellacombe
"Today I have grown taller walking with the trees." - Karl Baker "Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it." - Author unknown
"The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing that for some reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on." - Ruth Stout
"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush." - Doug Larson
"Thus the shade gardener begins as a grower of plants and becomes the cultivator of a certain phase of mind: that of retreat and solitude. . . just what the inner doctor orders." - George Schenk "The Complete Shade Gardener"
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther
"Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders." - Henry David Thoreau
" To me, the garden is a doorway to other worlds; one of them, of course, is the world of birds. The garden is their dinner table, bursting with bugs and worms and succulent berries." - Anne Raver
"One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. " - W.E. Johns, The Passing Show
"Nature has undoubtedly mastered the art of winter gardening and even the most experienced gardener can learn from the unrestrained beauty around them." - Vincent A Simone
"Anyone who thinks gardening begins in the spring and ends in the fall is missing the best part of the whole year; for gardening begins in January with the dream." - Josephine Nuese
"Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour." - John Boswell
"The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white." - James Russell Lowell, "First Snowfall
"It is a joy to walk in the bare woods. The moonlight is not broken by the heavy leaves. The leaves are down, and touching the soaked earth, Giving off the odors that partridges love." - Robert Bly, Solitude Late at Night in the Woods
"If I'm ever reborn, I want to be a gardener - there's too much to do for one lifetime!" - Karl Foerster
"The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air." - Eric Sloane
"The most serious gardening I do would seem very strange to the onlooker, for it involves hours of walking round in circles, apparently doing nothing." - Helen Dillon
"There's little risk in becoming overly proud of one's garden because gardening by it's very nature is humbling. It has a way of keeping you on your knees." - Joanne R. Barwick
"If it's rare, we want it. If it's tiny and impossible to grow, we've got to have it. If it's brown, looks dead, and has black flowers, we'll kill for it." -Ken Druse
"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. " - Sam Keen
"More grows in the garden than the gardener sows." - Old Spanish Proverb
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back". - Henry David Thoreau
"Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom." - Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
"I admit: I garden because I cannot help myself". - Margaret Roach