I have never, for any eight months together, during my whole life, been without a garden. William Cobbett
Flowers bring to a liberall and gentlemanly minde the remembrance of honestie, comelinesse and all kindes of virtues. John Gerard
I will go root away the noisome weeds, that without profit suck the soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. Shakespeare
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved. George Washington
Botany is a sequel of murder and a chronicle of the dead. Julian Hawthorne
There are many things left for May, but nothing fairer, if as fair, as the first flower, the Hepatica. John Burroughs
No other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture. Abraham Lincoln
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. James Russell Lowell
For age and want save while you may; for no morning sun last a whole day. Benjamin Franklin
Organic gardening is not just the avoidance of chemicals, in the larger view, it is organic living using nature's laws. author unknown
The tractor is a machine more important than any tank, gun carrier or submarine and it will lead to a more peaceful world than any we have known. Henry Ford
And the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. Ezekiel 47.12
