Dreams ...

Dreams are the touchstone of our character.

Henry David Thoreau

The Rock Garden, Chandigarh

Clean out a corner of your mind ....

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Dee Hock

The Rock Garden, Chandigarh, India

A circle is the reflection of eternity

A circle is the reflection of eternity.

Maynard James Keenan

Driftline

You have to do your own growing ...

You have to do your own growing, however tall 

your grandfather was.

Abraham Lincoln

The Galloping Gardener

He that plants a tree ...

He that plants a tree loves others besides himself.

Thomas Fuller

The Galloping Gardener

Laughter ...

Laughter is but a frown turned upside down.

Unknown Author

"Excuse me while I kiss the sky" Conceptual Garden at RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 2011

Nature ...

Nature is the only book that offers rich content on every page.

Johann von Wolfgang Goethe 

Friendship is like a rose ...

True friendship is like a rose; 

We don't realise its beauty until it fades.

Evelyn Loeb

The Galloping Gardener

... Seeing is believing ...

Old-fashioned Green Rose at Mable Ringling's Rose Garden, Florida

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know 

that believing is seeing.

Dennis Waitley

Plants give us oxygen ...

Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and the soul.

Linda Solegato

The Galloping Gardener

Just living is not enough

Living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom 
and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson

The Galloping Gardener

Where flowers bloom ...

Where flowers bloom, so does hope.

Lady Bird Johnson

Water ...

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Thomas Fuller

The Galloping Gardener

Every spring ...

Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment.

Ellis Peters

The Galloping Gardener

Light ...

When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light.

Astrid Alanda


Image entered for Gardening Gone Wild/April 2011

More magic in my garden!

Every time I open my eyes at this time of year, there's more 

magic in my garden!

The Galloping Gardener

The universe ...

The universe is a continuous web. 

Touch it at any point and it quivers.

Stanley Kunitz

April is a promise ..

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

Hal Borland

Light within ...

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

Anais Nin

Bird of paradise ...

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

I go to nature ...

I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses 

put in order.

John Burroughs

The Galloping Gardener

Beauty of the flower

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Rabindranath Tagore

Courage ...

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".

Mary Anne Radmacher

Dreams ...

Dreams are the playground of unicorns.

Author Unknown

Happiness ....

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

Turn your face to the sun

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Maori Proverb

The Galloping Gardener

The first day of spring ...

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first 

spring day is another.

Henry van Dyke

No matter how long the winter ...

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.

Author Unknown

I love spring anywhere ...

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always 

greet it in a garden.

Ruth Stout

We never know the worth of water ...

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Thomas Fuller

The Galloping Gardener

The most important trip ....

The most important trip you may take in a life is 

meeting people half way.

John Ruskin

The Galloping Gardener

Flowers seem intended ....

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

John Ruskin

With each sunrise ....

With each sunrise, we start anew.

Author Unknown

Jardins sans Frontiers

I fly because ....

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Antione de Saint Exupery

A bird does not sing ...

A bird does not sing because it has the answer. It sings 

because it has a song.

Chinese Proberb

Strength ...

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Stephen Covey

From the bottom of my heart ...

I saw this tiger in captivity yesterday - part of a performing act, which I couldn't bear to watch. Why do we allow this? 

We all live under the same sky ...

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have 

the same horizon.

Konrad Adenauer

Jardins sans Frontiers

The world is full of cactus ...

The world is full of cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Will Foley

All gardening involves constant change

All gardening involves contant change.

Gertrude Jekyll

Flowers really do intoxicate me

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

Vita Sackville-West

Each flower is a soul ...

Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature.

Gerald de Nerval

The colour of springtime ...

The colour of springtime is in the flowers; the colour of winter 

is in the imagination.

Terri Guillemets

One kind word ...

One kind word can warm three winter months

Japanese Proverb

(To see more snowdrops, click here)

Many things grow in the garden ...

Many things grow in the garden that were never sewn there.

Thomas Fuller

The Galloping Gardener

No matter how long the winter ...

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.

Proverb

Jardins sans Frontiers

Adopt the pace of nature ...

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reality ...

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

John Lennon

Perfection is achieved ...

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

In the right light ...

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Aaron Rose