“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say “I want to see the manager.”
– William S. Burroughs
Gaia
“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ennoia: A Magical Thinking Place
In Gnostic tradition, this Goddess embodies thought,
“The breath of flowers if far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand.”
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.”
– Martha Graham
Bast: Garden of Joyful Dancing
Bast is a cat-faced goddess who comes to
“There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.”
-Rose Fyleman
Dana: Fairy Garden Sacred to the Mother of the Gods
In ancient Irish
“Gardening is not a rational act.”
-Margaret Atwood
The ground on which we walk is truly sacred, especially when we approach it with a
“The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.”
-Zulu Proverb
Few of us live close to the land any
“Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to
“Make no judgments where you have no compassion.”
-Anne McCaffrey
Hindu writings speak of Gauri as the golden one. Her name is sometimes translated
“One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.”
– Dan Bennett
Although most of us
“The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation, it becomes an obsession.”
-Phyllis McGinley
A Magical Green Thumb Garden for
“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your
“Brigid, excellent woman, sudden flame, may the bright fiery sun take us to the lasting kingdom.”
– Ancient Irish Song
Threefold Goddess Garden for
“Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters,
“To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.”
– Christian N. Bovee
Witches love their gardens, but those beautiful plots didn’t just spring
“Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble.”
-Shakespeare
Although Shakespeare is known as the source of the quote, Cerridwen had the
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own
“Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.”
Chinese Proverb
If your
“All nature wears one universal grin.”
– Henry Fielding
To survive, our ancestors had to become astute observers of the natural world. There was a
“A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the
“Gardening requires a lot of water-most of it in the form of perspiration.”
-Lou Erickson
The Goddess has always been a very practical deity.
“There’s music in the sighing of a reed; there’s music in the gushing of a rill; there’s music in all things, if men had ears.”
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
The wonder and adoration humans hold for natural