#garden

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. ↗

— Eric Brown

#between #book #day #five #garden

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#always #better #flowers #food #happier

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#friend #garden #rose #single #world

He plants trees to benefit another generation. ↗

— Caecilius Statius

#another #benefit #generation #plants #trees

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#better #garden #lot #neglected #tended

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#culture #delightful #earth #garden #me

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

#above #careful #entire #garden #grand

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

#dies #love #never #once #seed

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more. ↗

— Jewel

#career #decide #garden #like #more

I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he? ↗

— Ian St. John

#christmas #dance #decorating #digging #does