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January 2006 - "There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues". - Hal Borland
February 2006 - "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience". - Ralph Waldo Emerson
March 2006 - "Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn". - Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You
April 2006 - "Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" - Robin Williams
May 2006 - "I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden". - Ruth Stout
June 2006 - "If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance". - Bern Williams
July 2006 - "You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt". - Author Unknown
August 2006 - "Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability". - Sam Keen
September 2006 - "There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it". - Minnie Aumonier
October 2006 - "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower". - Albert Camus
November 2006 - "For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad". - Edwin Way Teale
December 2006 - "The most beautiful flowers had to grow through a lot of dirt before they became so beautiful" - Unknown
January 2007 - "The merry year is born like the bright berry from the naked thorn". - Hartley Coleridge
February 2007 - "Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle ... a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream". - Barbara Winkler
March 2007 - "Use the talents you possess - for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best".- Henry Van Dyke
April 2007 - "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome". - Anne Bradstreet
May 2007 - "In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt". - Margaret Atwood
June 2007 - "In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them". - Aldo Leopold
July 2007 - "A life without love is like a year without summer". - Swedish Proverb
August 2007 - "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring". ~George Santayana
September 2007 - "The more you know, the more you can create". ~ Julia Child
October 2007 - "Nature does nothing uselessly". ~ Aristotle
November 2007 - "We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures". ~Thornton Wilder
December 2007 - "In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy". ~William Blake
January 2008 - "The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows". ~George William Curtis
February 2008 - "Great art picks up where nature ends". ~Marc Chagall
March 2008 - "An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture". ~Jean Cocteau, Newsweek, 16 May 1955
April 2008 - "No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow". ~Proverb
May 2008 - "If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom". ~Audra Fove
June 2008 - "Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul". ~Author Unknown
July 2008 - "There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart". ~Celia Thaxter
August 2008 - "Conservation is humanity caring for the future". ~ Nancy Newhall
September 2008 - What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. ~Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, 1871
October 2008 - "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket". ~Chinese Proverb
November 2008 - "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face". ~John Donne
December 2008 - "Life is a mosaic, you pick the pieces". ~Unknown
January 2009 - "Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty". ~John Selden
February 2009 - "Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense". ~Mark Overby
March 2009 - "No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn". ~Hal Borland
April 2009 - "We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance". ~Japanese Proverb
May 2009 - "Beauty is the Mistress, the Gardener Her slave". ~Mike Garofalo, Pulling Onions
June 2009 -"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life". ~ James Allen
July 2009 - "In summer, the song sings itself". ~William Carlos Williams
August 2009 - "By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower". ~Rabindrath Tagore
September 2009 - "Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose". ~Turkish Proverb
October 2009 - "Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all". ~Stanley Horowitz
November 2009 - "Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn". ~Elizabeth Lawrence
December 2009 - "Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love" ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
January 2010 - "When Mother Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it". ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
February 2010 - "Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring". ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
March 2010 - "St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time - a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic". ~Adrienne Cook
April 2010 - "Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?" ~Coleman Cox
May 2010 - None
June 2010 - "There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling." ~Mirabel Osler
July & August 2010 - "It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you." ~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler
September 2010 - "Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." ~George Eliot
October 2010 - "October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter." ~Nova Bair
November 2010 - "Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live". ~Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear
December 2010 - "Remember if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm...As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, and one for helping others". ~ Audrey Hepburn
January 2011 - "The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way". ~Unknown
February 2011 - "Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so." ~Stanley Crawford
March 2011 - "It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade". ~Charles Dickens
April 2011 - "It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!" ~Mark Twain
May 2011 - "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.". ~Aristotle
June 2011 - "You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
July 2011 - "I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips." ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit
August 2011 - "Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." ~Cynthia Nelms
September 2011 - "You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages". ~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
October 2011 - "Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter." ~Carol Bishop Hipps
November 2011 - "For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!" ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 2011 - "Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold!" ~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
January 2012 - "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." ~Oprah Winfrey
February 2012 - "Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs." ~Ovid