“Gardens are a form of autobiography.”
Sydney Eddison, Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
Halifax Public Gardens, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
Friday Reflection
“We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.”
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Friday Reflection
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
Mary Oliver
Halifax Public Gardens, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
Iris Murdoch
Halifax Public Gardens, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Halifax Public Gardens, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
C.S. Lewis
Halifax Public Gardens, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space — a place not just set apart but reverberant — and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.”
Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education
Halifax Public Gardens, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“When we lose our myths, we lose our place in the universe.”
Madeleine L’Engle
Flora
Halifax Public Gardens – Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Victorian Bandstand, Halifax Public Gardens – Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
Halifax Public Gardens – Halifax, Nova Scotia