"Elizabeth and Her German Garden" Quotes

I love my garden, and I love working in it. To potter with green growing things, watching each day to see the dear, new sprouts come up, is like taking a hand in creation, I think.

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

It is one of my theories that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skins are made of.

I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!

I am always happy when I am surrounded by green growing things, particularly under a foreign sky.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

People that are very agreeable in themselves have a hard time in this world.