Autumn Leaves ~ Julie

From every hill I climbed I saw the same clustering thickets of evergreens, the same blossom laden trees and tree ferns

~ H G Wells

The glory of gardening:  hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature.  To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul

~ Alfred Austin

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Side by Side ~ Julie

Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better

~ Albert Einstein

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken

~ Leo Tolstoy

But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness ~ the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Colours of Autumn ~ Julie

The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has roots in earth and manure

~ D H Lawrence

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow

~ Audrey Hepburn

Warm Freesias ~ Julie