Quotes From The Little Green Book of Bardening Wisdom

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks; and a man shall ever see, that which ages grow in civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden timely; as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering gardens; there ought to be gardens, for all the months n the year; in which severally things of beauty may be then in season.  ~Francis Bacon Of Gardens (1625)