Quotes For Gardeners

Health, Exercise, Diet

Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo

Man was not made to rust out in idleness. A degree of
exercise is as necessary for the preservation of health,
both of body and mind, as his daily food. And what
exercise is more fitting, or more appropriate of one who
is in the decline of life, than that of superintending a
well-ordered garden?   What more enlivens the sinking
mind?   What is more conducive to a long life?
-   Joseph Breck

Of all exercises walking is the best.
- Thomas Jefferson

Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.
- Author Unknown

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When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed,
I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover
that I have been defrauding myself all this time in
letting others do for me what I should have done
with my own hands.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Have you had your daily quota of horticulture today?"
- Richard Mattson, Professor Kansas State University

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
- English Proverb

Walking - Quotes for Gardeners

Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.
- Hippocrates

Medical Economics made a survey of doctors' leisure pursuits,
and found that "an astonishing 40 percent" of those surveyed
engage in gardening. In fact, more M.D.'s garden than play golf.
Maybe this should be a tip to the rest of us.
- Gardening Section

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
- G. M. Trevelyan

Food and Eating - Quotes for Gardeners

We see the garden as a wonderful tool to
help clients and their families recognize that they can
continue an activity that is meaningful to them
regardless of their limitations.
- Mona Lippitt, Therapy Manager, Promina, Atlanta

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