Monday, October 31, 2011

GARDEN VERSE - A Garden is by Thoreau



“A garden is but Nature debauched.”
                                                 
                                         Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)


Tuesday, October 25, 2011

GARDEN VERSE - If You Wish To Be Happy



“If you wish to be happy for a day, get drunk;
If you wish to be happy for a week, kill a pig;
If you wish to be happy for a month, get married;
If you wish to be happy for ever and ever, make a garden.”

                                                Chinese Proverb 

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Sunday, October 16, 2011

GARDEN VERSE - Adam, The First Gardener

A verse by Rudyard Kipling about Adam, the first gardener.

Oh,  Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees
That half a proper gardener’s work is done upon his knees,
So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray
For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away!

                                    Rudyard Kipling
                                    The Glory of the Garden (1911)

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