Chaos Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature abhors a garden.

— Michael Pollan

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

— Anonymous

“The sovereign individual cannot escape to any degree the rules and practices of gardening.”

— Tom P. S. Angier

much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.

— Patience Strong

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

— Wendell Berry

“Do not love these gardens if you despise the dirt.”

— Melissa Jennings

“Gardens by their very nature are fragile beings that live in the two dimensions of time and care.”

— Joe Eck

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

— Jane Hirshfield

The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place…

— Thomas Moore

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

— Nan Fairbrother

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

— Alfred Austin

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul.…

— William Lawson