Baskets Quote by Roger Swain

In an early spring, We see th'appearing buds, which to prove fruit, Hope gives not so much warrant, as despair, That frosts will bite…

— William Shakespeare

What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to…

— Alice Walker

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.

— Anonymous

I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.

— Charles Goodyear

For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round…

— Alamgir Hashmi

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

— Walter de La Mare

There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened…

— Isaac Barrow

Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness…

— May Sarton

We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the…

— J. B. Priestley

The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow. -The seed springs up so readily, and the blossoms open so soon with such a brave…

— Lucas Malet