Gardening Quotes

73. A weed is but an unloved flower.

^{Ella Wheeler Wilcox}

74. If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. – Gardening Quotes

^{John Harrison}

75. Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

^{Jean Anouilh}

76. But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings – then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

^{George Cadbury}

77. I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

^{Robert Bridges}

78. One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one’s horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

^{Francis Cabot Lowell}

79. The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. – Gardening Quotes

^{Lillie Langtry}

80. There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer’s day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.

^{Peter Mayle}

81. There’s something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

^{Ken Kesey}

82. Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

^{Alfred Austin}

83. I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

^{Penelope Keith}

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

^{Gertrude Jekyll}

85. I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

^{Barbra Streisand}

86. A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. – Gardening Quotes

^{Michael Pollan}

87. The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

^{Nicholas Culpeper}

88. I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

^{Hayley Mills}

89. By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

^{Rabindranath Tagore}

90. Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

^{May Sarton}

91. All gardening is landscape painting. – Gardening Quotes

^{William Kent}

92. The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

^{Luther Burbank}

93. Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

^{Richard Brinsley Sheridan}

94. The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

^{Stephen Gardiner}

95. I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers… I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

^{Beau Bridges}

96. Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

^Dogen

97. Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings – sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.

^{Peter Zumthor}

98. Gardening is not a rational act. – Gardening Quotes

^{Margaret Atwood}

99. When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

^{Robert Smithson}

100. If 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}

Gardening Quotes 101 – 200

101. My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

^{Andrew Weil}

102. A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. – Gardening Quotes

^{Letitia Elizabeth Landon}

103. The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

^{Gertrude Jekyll}

104. One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

^{Robert Fortune}

105. Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

^{Penelope Keith}

106. Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

^{Doris Day}

107. Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.

^{Jean Ingelow}

108. I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

^{Steve Zahn}

109. I do the gardening.

^{Ken Livingstone}

110. I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden. – Gardening Quotes

^{Miranda Richardson}

111. I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

^{Dorothy Malone}

– Gardening Quotes

113. It’s true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

^{Viggo Mortensen}

114. I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they’re just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

^{Amanda Donohoe}

115. Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.

^{Robert Fortune}

116. I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That’s therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.

^{Billy Williams}

117. I love decorating my home. I’m a gardener too, so that’s usually something I have to play catch up with.

^{Suzy Bogguss}

118. I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don’t like tidying up the garden afterwards.

^{Jamaica Kincaid}

119. Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France – that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

^{Alfred de Vigny}

– Gardening Quotes

121. I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.

^{Monty Don}