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James A. Chatfield, Ohio State University Extension, Northeast District/Horticulture and Crop Science; Nancy A. Taylor, Erik A. Draper, Stephen Nameth, Joseph F. Boggs, |
8. BYGLOSOPHYS
Each week the Buckeye Yard and Garden Line (BYGL) concludes with a touch of philosophy concerning gardening or nature, human or otherwise. Here are some favorites from the 2001 BYGLs.
But each spring...a gardening instinct, sure as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us. We look about and decide to tame another little bit of ground. Lewis Gantt
There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. John Steinbeck
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. J. Lubbock
Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds, and animals.
Henry Beard and Roy McKie
You can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you have to start with a large fortune.
Jim Hightower
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of a garden. Thomas Jefferson
Bread feeds the body indeed, but flowers also feed the soul. The Koran
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.
William Blake
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Lewis Thomas
When gardening, I have one gift you won't find in any manuals I know it's strange, but I can change perennials to annuals.
Dick Emmons
In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.
Frank McKinney Hubbard
To a gardener there is nothing more exasperating than a hose that just isn't long enough. Cecil Roberts
Avoid suspicion: when you're walking through your neighbor's melon patch, don't tie your shoe.
Chinese Proverb
Water, like fire, is a good servant, perhaps, but is painfully liable to develop into a master.
R. J. Farrer
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.
Fred Ale
Rabbits have a habit of coming for breakfast and staying for lunch. Now there's one leaf instead of a bunch.
Gerry Krueger
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
Lewis Grizzard
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana