Memorable Gardening Quotes

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"A garden is a friend you can visit anytime."
Unknown
"A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with the scientific."
Luis Barragan
"When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside too."
Linda Solegato
"Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul."
Terri Guillemets
"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."
Abram L. Urban
"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
"The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land."
Abraham Lincoln
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"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
"He who plants a garden plants happiness."
Chinese Proverb
"Gardening is a work of the heart. It is a constant love song to the wonders of nature."
Jane Hall
"Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration."
Lou Erickson
"The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig."
Texas Bix Bender
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit."
Greek Proverb
"Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade."
Rudyard Kipling
"Gardening is an instrument of grace."
May Sarton
"In the garden of life, plant only love."
Unknown
"A society grows great when people plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
Greek Proverb
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the mind."
Luther Burbank
"Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes."
Author Unknown
"To plant a garden is to believe in the future."
Unknown
"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The love of gardening is a pure delight and a true labor of love."
Unknown
"To nurture a garden is to feed the soul."
Unknown
"In every gardener is a child who loves to play in the dirt."
Author Unknown
"In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil."
Rose G. Kingsley
"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
Alfred Austin
"Gardening is an active participation in the deepest mysteries of the Universe."
Thomas Berry
"There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments."
Janet Kilburn Phillips
"The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow."
Unknown
"Nothing is more the child of art than a garden."
Walter Scott
"Gardening is the work of a lifetime: you never finish."
Oscar de la Renta
"Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart."
Russell Page
"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway."
Michael Pollan
"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
"When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden."
Minnie Aumonier
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"In the garden, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death."
Sam Llewelyn
"One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides."
W.E. Johns
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."
Gertrude Jekyll
"The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm."
Swedish Proverb
"Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors."
Oscar de la Renta
"In search of my mother's garden, I found my own."
Alice Walker
"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
"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
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul."
Luther Burbank
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
Cicero
"When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited."
Ramakrishna
"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."
Audrey Hepburn
"The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies."
Gertrude Jekyll
"Gardening is the purest of human pleasures."
Francis Bacon
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
Greek Proverb
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
Chinese Proverb
"In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy."
Robert Brault
"Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years."
Unknown
"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature."
Alfred Austin
"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
"Gardening is a work of the heart."
Unknown
"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
Mahatma Gandhi
"You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt."
Unknown
"Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized."
Allan Armitage
"In the garden, the door is always open, ready to welcome the visitor."
Unknown
"Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas."
Elizabeth Murray
"The hum of bees is the voice of the garden."
Elizabeth Lawrence
"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses."
Hanna Rion
"A weed is but an unloved flower."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul."
Luther Burbank
"The kiss of the sun for pardon, the song of the birds for mirth, one is nearer God's heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth."
Dorothy Frances Gurney
"There are no happier people than plant lovers and none more generous than those who garden."
Celia Thaxter
"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches self-reliance, responsibility, and the importance of patience."
Gertrude S. Wister
"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 memory, or just for the joy of seeing them grow."
David Hobson
"Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking things slowly and simply."
Alan Titchmarsh
"We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it's our garden that is really nurturing us."
Jenny Uglow
"In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener."
Robert Rodale
"To plant a seed is to believe in tomorrow."
Unknown
"My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece."
Claude Monet
"When the world wearies, and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden."
Minnie Aumonier
"Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth's lips spoken without sound."
Edwin Curran
"I like gardening — it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself."
Alice Sebold
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies hiding at the bottom of it?"
Douglas Adams
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