Where Wild Things Grow

Rosa Rugosa

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.  ~Author Unknown

Kale

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.  ~Erich Fromm

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.  ~Anne Bradstreet

"If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come." Chinese Proverb

Rosa Rugosa

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed,become.  But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert

Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.  ~Terri Guillemets

Rosa Rugosa

The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to.  The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.  ~A.L. Kitselman

In the garden I tend to drop my thoughts here and there.  To the flowers I whisper the secrets I keep and the hopes I breathe.  I know they are there to eavesdrop for the angels.  ~Dodinsky

Whitetail Does

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.  Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward.  Your life will never be the same again.  ~Og Mandino

Thyme

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.  ~K.T. Jong

Apple Mint

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves.  The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.  ~Carl Jung

Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity.  ~Lindley Karstens

“Are wild strawberries really wild? 
Will they scratch an adult, will they snap at a child? 
Should you pet them, or let them run free where they roam? 
Could they ever relax in a steam-heated home? 
Can they be trained to not growl at the guests? 
Will a litterbox work or would they make a mess? 
Can we make them a Cowberry, herding the cows, 
or maybe a Muleberry pulling the plows, 
or maybe a Huntberry chasing the grouse, 
or maybe a Watchberry guarding the house, 
and though they may curl up at your feet oh so sweetly 
can you ever feel that you trust them completely? 
Or should we make a pet out of something less scary, 
like the Domestic Prune or the Imported Cherry, 
Anyhow, you’ve been warned and I will not be blamed 
if your Wild Strawberries cannot be tamed.”

― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends