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May

Quotations for Gardeners, Walkers, and Lovers of the Green Way
Poems, Quotes, Folklore, Myths, Customs, Holidays, Traditions, Verses
Celebrations, Sayings, Poetry, Quips, Lore, Links, Recommended Reading
Gardening Chores for the Month of May 

Compiled by Mike Garofalo
Green Way Research, Red Bluff, California 

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Quotes

The Month of May
Poetry, Quotations, Sayings, Facts, Information, Quips, Aphorisms

 

"The wind is tossing the lilacs,
The new leaves laugh in the sun,
And the petals fall on the orchard wall,
But for me the spring is done.

Beneath the apple blossoms
I go a wintry way,
For love that smiled in April
Is false to me in May."
-  Sara Teasdale, May  

"A swarm of bees in May
Is worth a load of hay;
A swarm of bees in June
Is worth a silver spoon;
A swarm of bees in July
Is not worth a fly."
-  Rhyme from England

"May and June.  Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights.  The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin." 
-  Peter Loewer  

"The world's favorite season is the spring.
All things seem possible in May."
-  Edwin Way Teale

"Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun."
- Kahlil Gibran

"What potent blood hath modest May."
-  Ralph W. Emerson

"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie."
-  George Herbert, Virtue 

"Spring rain
leaking through the roof
dripping from the wasps' nest."
- Matsuo Basho

Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated Worlds by Wendy Johnson

The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation by the Findhorn Community

One Old Druids Final Journey: Notebooks of the Librarian at Gushen Grove

The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning by Julie Messervy 

A Garden's Promise: Spiritual Reflections on Growing from the Heart by Judith Couchman 

The Soul Garden: Creating Garden Spaces for Inner Growth and Spiritual Renewal by Donald Norfork 

The Druidry Handbook: Spiritual Practice Rooted in the Living Earth by John Michael Greer

Landscape as Spirit: Creating a Contemplative Garden by Martin Hakubai Mosko

Sacred Circle Garden by Karen and Mike Garofalo

Sacred Gardens by Michel and Judy Marcellot

Spiritual Gardening: Creating Sacred Space Outdoors by Peg Streep

Gardens for the Soul: Designing Outdoor Spaces Using Ancient Symbols and Healing Plants by Pamela Woods 

                             

"Don't knock the weather: nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while."
-  Kin Hubbard

"By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months.  All is at last in balance and all is serene.  The gardener is usually dead, of course."
-  Henry Mitchell, The Essential Earthman 

"If it's drama that you sigh for, plant a garden and you'll get it.  You will know the thrill of battle fighting foes that will beset it.  If you long for entertainment and for pageantry most glowing, plant a garden and this summer spend your time with green things growing."
-  Edward A. Guest, Plant a Garden

 

Seasonal Celebrations: Inspirational Ideas to Mark the Changing Seasons by Tessa Evelegh

In Celebration of Summer: A Book of Seasonal Indulgences by Helen Thompson

Time and the Art of Living by Robert Grudin

A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year by Ellen Evert Hopman 

Complete Seasons Cookbook by Joanne Weir

Dancing with the Sun: Celebrating the Seasons of Life by Yasmine Galenorn

Exploring The Northern Tradition: A Guide To The Gods, Lore, Rites And Celebrations From The Norse, German And Anglo-saxon Traditions by Galina Krasskova 

The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems by Fritjof Capra 

                             

"'Tis like the birthday of the world,
When earth was born in bloom;
The light is made of many dyes,
The air is all perfume:
There's crimson buds, and white and blue,
The very rainbow showers
Have turned to blossoms where they fell,
And sown the earth with flowers."
-  Thomas Hood

 

"In somer when the shawes be sheyne,
And leves be large and long,
Hit is full merry in feyre foreste
To here the foulys song.

To see the dere draw to the dale
And leve the hilles hee,
And shadow him in the leves grene
Under the green-wode tree.

Hit befell on Whitsontide
Early in a May mornyng,
The Sonne up faire can shyne,
And the briddis mery can syng."
- Anonymous, May in the Green Wode, 15h Century

"cottonwood fluff
stuck to dry weeds -
silent wind chimes"
-  Michael Garofalo, Cuttings

"You are as welcome as the flowers in May."
-  Charles Macklin

"The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
a cloud come over the sunlit arch,
And wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March."
-  Robert Frost 

"O day after day we can't help growing older.
Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.
Come let's enjoy our winecup today,
Nor pity the flowers fallen."
-  Wang Wei, On Parting with Spring 

"The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.  For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May."
-  Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur 

'But I must gather knots of flowers,
And buds and garlands gay,
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother,
I'm to be Queen o' the May.'
-  Alfred Lord Tennyson

"May is a pious fraud of the almanac."
- James R. Lowell 

"The young May moon is beaming, love.
The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming, love.
How sweet to rove,
Through Morna's grove,
When the drowsy world is dreaming, love!
Then awake! -- the heavens look bright, my dear,
'Tis never too late for delight, my dear,
And the best of all ways
To lengthen our days
Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!"
-  Thomas Moore, The Young May Moon 

"The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.

Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too,
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.

Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh."
-  Philip Larkin, The Trees