Gardening Quotes

My Favorite's....

"Quotes"

"Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years."

"To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment."

"A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul."

"Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden, And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, kind words and kind deeds."

"And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden...You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden."

"I think that I will never see a poem as lovely as a tree."

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

"Kiss of the sun for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth. You're closer to God's heart in the garden than any place else on earth"

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."

 "No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden."

 "It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves."

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need" - — Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
 
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
— Voltaire
 
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.
— Alfred Austin
 
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
— David Hobson
 
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
 
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. — Rudyard Kipling
 
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon
 
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. — May Sarton
 
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. — Gertrude Jekyll
 
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. — Zora Neale Hurston
 
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. — B.C. Forbe

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece — Claude Monet
 
Garden as though you will live forever. — William Kent
 
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. — Liberty Hyde Bailey
 
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. — Michael Pollan
 
If a tree dies, plant another in its place. — Carl Linnaeus
 
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. — Alfred Austin
 
I like gardening — it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. — Alice Sebold
 
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. — Michael Pollan
 
The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard. — Joel Salatin

Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating. — Wendell Berry
 
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. — Ruth Stout
 
All gardeners know better than other gardeners. — Chinese proverb
 
But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that. — Edna Ferber
 
If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. — Russell Page
 
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. — Greek proverb
 
There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. — Janet Kilburn Phillips
 
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. — Abraham Lincoln
 
When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. — Minnie Aumonier
 
Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. — Allan Armitage

"Nothing is more the child of art than a garden."

"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get"

"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."

"A garden is a reflection of its owner, a thing of beauty that changes over time, a window to the creativity within."

"The best place to seek God is in a garden.  You can dig for him there."  

"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses."

"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment.  My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.  The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful."

  

  "If you would be happy your whole life long, Become a gardener"

"Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity."

"In the garden I tend to drop my thoughts here and there.  To the flowers I whisper the secrets I keep and the hopes I breathe. "

"I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me."

"If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden."

 "Indoor Gardening is the tribute I give to mother nature"

"Gifting a houseplant,  is the true gift"

"I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted."

 "Plants takes all my sorrow and give joy to my soul."