The promise of things to come ...

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon

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

When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.
Minnie Aumonier