Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff answers:

The quote you gave [“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit”] is one of my favorites.

Other quotes I’ve used in connection with volunteerism (some of which *directly* relate to nature, and some of which only *indirectly* do) are as follow:

The breeze, the trees, the honey bees –
All volunteers!
~Juliet Carinreap

Do not be afraid to go out on a limb … That’s where the fruit is.
– Anonymous

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is more pleasure in making a garden than in contemplating a paradise.- Anne Scott-James

Gardens will be the peaceful haven we all need. -Paul Tukey

Mental sunshine will cause the flowers of peace, happiness and prosperity to
grow upon the face of the earth. Be a creator of mental sunshine.–Kathi’s Garden

Gardens are not created or made, they unfold,
spiraling open like the silk petals of an evening
primrose flower to reveal the ground plot of the
mind and heart of the gardener
and the good earth.
– Wendy Johnson

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

The beauty of the trees,
the softness of the air,
the fragrance of the grass,
speaks to me.
The summit of the mountain,
the thunder of the sky,
speaks to me.
The faintness of the stars,
the trail of the sun,
the strength of fire,
and the life that never goes away,
they speak to me.
And my heart soars.
– Chief Dan George

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
– William Blake, Auguries of Innocence, 1863

How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston

The work an unknown good [person] has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ~Thomas Carlyle

“May you remember that though the roads we take can sometimes be difficult, those are often the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.” Douglas Pagels

“Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.” Vesta M. Kelly

“One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.” Jack Penn
The world is hugged by the faithful arms of volunteers. ~Everett Mámor

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.” Archimedes

“Volunteers polish up the rough spots in our communities.” Jefferson Award Winner Alice Sandstrom

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.–Booker T. Washington

We believe that love is the most powerful healing force in the universe.
Mission Statement
Network for Attitudinal Healing International

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal.
In every heart there is the power to do it. Marianne Williamson

Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. –Theodore Isaac Rubin

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. Albert Schweitzer

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Charles Kuralt

When you are kind to someone in trouble,
you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else,
and it’ll become like a wildfire.
Whoopi Goldberg

GardenersCardiff answers:

Andrew: You’ll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and it’s just gone. And you can never get it back. It’s like you get homesick for a place that doesn’t exist. I mean it’s like this rite of passage, you know. You won’t have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it’s like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that’s all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.
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Sam: This is your one opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before and that no one will copy throughout human existence. And if nothing else, you will be remembered as the one guy who ever did this. This one thing.

GardenersCardiff answers:

I’lll give you a price. I put in 2. A 2×5′, and a 4×8′. All the plants, stone, pumps, fish and landscaping cost me $325.00. It took me about 12 hours, over 3 days. I live in NW Ohio.