~ Chance the Gardener (Peter Sellers in "Being There")
I cannot hope to match the wisdom of Chance the Gardener, but here nevertheless are a few thoughts:
"I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day."
"A garden never disappoints, but it can be disappointed -- and does not hide its disappointment."
"Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld?"
"I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me."
"There are years when my garden lives up to plan, and I behold a miracle. In other years I would settle for anything resembling a floral pattern."
"Spade and hoe in hand, I am summoned into my garden by the morning sun, an acolyte to its altar of worship."
"It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional."
Overnight it rained, and the wind switched into the west, and this morning my garden is fresh in the sun, and its scent wafts through my window. But if I sit in my garden, who will keep my appointment in town? But if I don't, who will sit in my garden?
~ Robert Brault
12 comments:
Your turn to water the garden tonight! :)
I think my garden is disappointed this summer.
My garden is disappointed right now too -- too darn hot! My tomatoes are really suffering. Sad!
Oh Garden Woes or Garden Delights...
My Swiss Chard, basil, tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant and peppers, dill, lettuce ... all pretty good and some already very tasty!
B U T my roses! ahhh a Shakespearean tragedy!
Here's what they look like in the late spring:
http://calm-energy.blogspot.com/2009/06/roses-in-rain.html
as were the ones in the anniversary photo...
Now, they are completely defoliated only my pink roses have a little new growth.
I sprayed with organic stuff today and fertilized... here's hoping!
This quote of yours works for me:
"My roses made my photographs look professional..." ~Maria
ps. Thank you, Robert, for making these wonderful connections~
I found this one somewhere in your site:
"If we do not feel a bond with the animals who share with us this moment in eternity, we do not comprehend eternity."
... and I've thought about this all week... as I enjoy new moments with the another robin family nesting in one of our trees.
Hi Robert
Welcome back! Great quotes.
I'm quoting you this morning if that's okay.
Aren't you back early?
Perhaps I exist that the rose may behold me?
Joan,
It was my turn just two years ago.
Marlene, Jan:
Ah, a disappointed garden. A little Shakespeare is called for. Please note my suggestion to Maria, below.
Maria,
Shakespearean tragedy -- great analogy! There's a bit of Hamlet in every rose: "To be or not to be." You need to quote to your roses another line from the same play: "To thine own self be true." That should do the trick.
Thanks for finding my "bond with animals" quote. It's a favorite of mine, and no one's ever noticed it before.
Ken,
I've decided to post every Thursday morning until mid-August. For my several readers Down Under, that means late Wednesday Eastern USA time.
Lise,
I suspect that a rose beholding you would be experiencing a rare treat! But that's the point, I guess -- all living things behold each other.
smiles,
rb
I've always enjoyed other people's gardens. Alas, I have a terrible brown thumb....I kill anything green if I get too near, so I raise children instead of roses and we behold each other with varying degrees of delight, frustration, and love.
Liz,
Nurturing a flower garden and raising a large family is asking a lot of even a gifted multi-tasker. Your gardening days are doubtless ahead. A brown thumb is the mark of a true gardener, especially a grainy indelible brown, impervious to lye soap.
smiles,
rb
Robert is very insightful on this matter! Our garden diminished after our children started school...(no vegetables, just perennials)
Now the children are grown and we're planting anew~
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I had forgotten about these. Thanks for digging deep into the archives to find them.
smiles,
rb
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