Garden Quote by Frank Auerbach

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

— Pete Seeger

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

— Diane Dreher

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

— Khalil Gibran

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own…

— Will Durant

Weeds are out most successful cultivated crop.

— Richard Mabey

My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . .

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to…

— Barbara Damrosch

You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

— Shunryu Suzuki

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow…

— John W. Gardner

“But gardening is none of that, really. Strip away the gadgets and the techniques, the books and the magazines and the soil test kits,…

— Amy Stewart

Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it…

— Anne Tyler