Life Lessons from the Garden

If our eyes and hearts are open, we can learn so many things from nature. Here are some lovely quotes to help you think about the gift of life and how to make yours and someone else's a little better today. Enjoy!

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. (Abraham Lincoln)

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

Planting seeds in your garden is like planting thoughts in your mind. Nourish the good ones and pull out the weeds. (GardensAll.com)

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow. (Diane Dreher)

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. (Gertrude Jekyll)

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. (Og Mandino)