A Garden is a Grand Teacher – Gertrude Jekyll
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.“ ~ Gertrude Jekyll
Ingredients for a Simple Life
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.“ ~ Gertrude Jekyll
“We are only brief guardians of these portions of land we call our gardens. We do not and cannot truly own them. Our bodies are made of the earth and return to it eventually, but the land will always remain alive. Everything we need to survive and all that nourishes us comes from the earth, […]
One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.
“We should cut out all the herbicides, the insecticides, the fungicides, the pesticides, all the “icides”. They sound just like homicide! We should stop killing things and give them the life force instead.” ~ Lalou Bize-Leroy