Gardening Quotes

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

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

"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."

"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees."

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."

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

"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul."

"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."

"When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited."

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered."

"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."

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

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

"The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly."

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

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

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."

"Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade."

"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."

"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."

"I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself."

"A weed is but an unloved flower."

"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!"

"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."

"Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air."

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