“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

To welcome this spring’s new beginning of time for every purpose under the sun, the task of the arts, like that of the sciences, is to say something about Nature.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

 — Niels Bohr

This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.

— Rumi

Gardens are a form of autobiography.

— Sydney Eddison

Weeds are nature’s graffiti.

—Janice Maeditere

The hum of bees is the voice of the garden. 

—Elizabeth Lawrence

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.

— Elizabeth Lawrence

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

― Pablo Neruda

Life begins the day you start a garden.

— Chinese Proverb

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon

The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided.

— Thomas Moore

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

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.

— Elizabeth Murray

And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

— Rumi

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

— Mark Twain

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

—Michael Pollan

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

— Louise Beebe Wilder