Arash Z.

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today and yesterday.
- Chinese proverb


Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow
is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a
dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day.
- Francis Gray


Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and
future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events
are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of
supernormal or extra-sensory perception, and glimpse of something
that happened long ago in our linear time.
- Frank Waters, Mountain Dialogues, 1981


This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere;
the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling;
vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal
dawn and glowing, on sea and continues and islands, each
in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
- John Muir

It is like clouds rising in the sky: suddenly there, gone without a trace.
And it is like drawing a pattern on water: it is neither born nor passes away.
This is cosmic peace and eternal rest.
When it is enclosed, it is called the matrix of the realization of suchness;
When it emerges from the enclosure, it is called the cosmic body of reality.
- Ma-tsu


We never remember days, only moments.
- Cesare Pavese

A garden should be in a constant state of fluid
change, expansion, experiment, adventure;
above all it should be an inquisitive, loving,
but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.
- H. E. Bates

Patience is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden.
- English proverb

To create a garden is to search for a better world.
In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided
by a vision of paradise. Whether the result is a
horticultural masterpiece or only a modest
vegetable patch, it is based on the expectation
of a glorious future. This hope for the future
is at the heart of all gardening.
- Marina Schinz

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things
appear in different places in the manner of violets
coming to light in the early spring.
- Farkas Bolyai

The purpose of art is to stop time.
- Bob Dylan

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk
past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and
emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering
what on earth happened.
- Dorothy Gilman


"Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky,
How beautiful it is?
All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness
There is a poem, there is a song.
Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring.
When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with
The music of many leaves,
Which in due season fall and are blown away.
And this is the way of life."
- Krishnamurti

One of the most delightful things about a garden
is the anticipation it provides.
- W. E. Johns