Gardening Quotes

23. In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own. – Gardening Quotes

^{Alice Walker}

24. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

^{Margaret Atwood}

25. A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

^{Doug Larson}

26. 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. – Gardening Quotes

^{May Sarton}

27. God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

^{Francis Bacon}

28. A good garden may have some weeds.

^{Thomas Fuller}

29. To dwell is to garden.

^{Martin Heidegger}

30. From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

^{Thomas Moore}

31. The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. – Gardening Quotes

^{William Wordsworth}

32. Flowers are happy things. – Gardening Quotes

^{P. G. Wodehouse}

33. Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.

^{Oscar de la Renta}

34. It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

^{B. C. Forbes}

35. A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

^Dogen

36. What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

^{Charles Dudley Warner}

37. I like gardening – it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

^{Alice Sebold}

38. Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

^{Jean-Jacques Rousseau}

39. Garden as though you will live forever. – Gardening Quotes

^{William Kent}

40. My extravagance is my garden – it’s the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. – Gardening Quotes

^{Ina Garten}

41. Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

^{Daniel Webster}

42. The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

^{Michael Pollan}

43. If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

^{Bill Watterson}

44. We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

^{Wendell Berry}

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

^{H. Jackson Brown, Jr.}

46. Use plants to bring life.

^{Douglas Wilson}

47. I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. – Gardening Quotes

^{Martha Smith}

48. Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! – Gardening Quotes

^{Sitting Bull}

49. I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

^{Walt Disney}

50. I love being in my garden. I don’t plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

^{Jacqueline Bisset}

51. The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

^{W. H. Davies}

52. Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

^{Zora Neale Hurston}

53. Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. – Gardening Quotes

^{William Cowper}

54. A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. – Gardening Quotes

^{D. Elton Trueblood}

55. You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can’t just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

^{Bootsy Collins}

56. I’ve always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend. – Gardening Quotes

^{C. Z. Guest}

57. My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn’t take it out of my garden.

^{Eric Morecambe}

58. I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

^{Joseph Addison}

59. How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

^{Alexander Smith}

60. If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

^{Carolus Linnaeus}

61. Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

^{Marcelene Cox}

62. I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

^{Phyllis Theroux}

63. He plants trees to benefit another generation. – Gardening Quotes

^{Caecilius Statius}

64. A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

^{Roberto Burle Marx}

65. The earth is rocky and full of roots; it’s clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you’ll never see it again – it’s death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. – Gardening Quotes

^{Anne Lamott}

66. A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

^{Gertrude Stein}

67. Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That’s the fun of them. You’re always learning.

^{Helen Mirren}

68. Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. – Gardening Quotes

^{Dixie Lee Ray}

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

^{Robert Louis Stevenson}

70. It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

^{James Douglas}

71. The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

^{Charlotte Smith}

72. Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they’re tender. They have to be persistent.

^{Ralph Fiennes}