“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.” – Rumi
“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.” – Alfred Austin, English Poet
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” – Helen Keller
“A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.” – William Kent – English Architect
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.” – Francis Bacon
Nature Reflects God’s Love
“Developing sensitivity to nature is actually more important than developing our knowledge.” – Sun Myung Moon
“When is a person in full bloom? It is during young adulthood. This age is the seven-year period from the age of eighteen to twenty-five. This period of seven years is the time when the flower of love blossoms the most. How precious is this once-in-a-lifetime period when one is fully blooming! You all know the peony (magnolia), don’t you? The bud of this flower has a different-colored yellow flower inside. How many layers of petals does it have? The petals are all tightly wound together on the flower. Can you push them open? They are tightly coiled so that it cannot be easily opened up. Men and women are similar to this. When is your bud of love going to blossom? That time is when beauty is manifested to the greatest degree.” – Sun Myung Moon
