Gardening Gift Mug

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. Cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. All gardening is landscape painting. What a person needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. Old gardeners never die, they just run out of thyme. The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature. One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. Weed it and reap. Gardening requires lots of water, most of it in the form of perspiration. Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of nature. A garden is a place to find yourself when you want to lose yourself.