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I've just seen this. It has to be added to your garden quotes. It was the last tweet from Leonard Nimoy before he died.

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP

Hello Mona,

For some reason your quote is not showing in the forum (or maybe I can't access it?) Anyway, thanks for posting it and thereby letting me know that Leonard Nimoy had passed away.

Your quote that you added:

Life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had but not preserved, except in memory.

To this I smile and remember so fondly those original Star Trek days where it was fashionable in our group to give the Vulcan salute as if you were greeting in peace and logic and then saying "Live long and Prosper."

Amazing the impact that such a character will always have on us ... ah, here is to the memories of those 'perfect moments.' Thank you Spock.

Cheers

Okay - so as soon as I answered there was your post ... tut tut me.

Cheers

Hello All,

Here are two for today ...

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help.
Gardening is an instrument of grace.

May Sarton (1912-1995) American poet, novelist, and memorist

and

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied.
They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.

Vita Sackville-West, 1892 - 1962

Cheers - do you have a garden quote to add?

Hey there gardeners ...

"You can tell what kind of gardener you are by your tools -
... trowel and trug mean you're a primrose and sweet pea sort;
... wheelbarrow and seed dibber mean you're a potato and marrow person;
... concrete mixer and socket-set mean what you most like to grow in your garden is a fourth-hand Ford Sierra."
from Guy Browning 'Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade'

Cheers now

Hello Greenfingers!

Here are three quotes that each made me smile - I hope you like them as much.

Gardening is not like reading a book, one cannot skip the bad parts.

Either you think gardening is good for the body and soul or you're wrong.

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."~ Iris Murdoch

I don't have references for the first two - sorry.

Cheers

Don't you just love being with your plants?

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.-
Elizabeth Murray

Cheers

This is more a gardening metaphor than a gardening quote, but it doesn't need much time on the Internet to see how appropriate it is.

Common sense is a flower that doesn't grow in everyone's garden.

Hey Mona, loved your comment!

Here's one to smile at I think ...

'Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.'
Lou Erickson, critic and poet

Cheers

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

- Gertrude Jekyll