Gardening Quotes
"Earth laughs in flowers."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do what I should have done with my own hands."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."
Rudyard Kipling
"Kind hearts are the garden,
kind thoughts are the root,
kind words are the blossoms,
kind deeds are the fruit."
John Ruskin
"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."
Chinese Proverb
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul."
Author Unknown
"When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world; a world where every country walk would be an adventure, where every garden would become an enchanted one."
Princess Grace of Monaco
"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth,
and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
But though an old man, I am but a young gardener."
Thomas Jefferson
"Flowers are lovely;
Love is flower-like
Friendship is a sheltering tree."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life."
Cora Lea Bell
"My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view."
H. Fred Ale
"One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides."
W.E. Johns
"God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure."
Francis Bacon
"If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn."
Andrew Mason
"I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden."
John Erskine
"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."
Emma Goldman
"In the garden the door is always open into the holy - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death."
May Sarton
"Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it."
Author Unknown
"He who plants a garden, plants happiness."
Chinese Proverb
"You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt."
Author Unknown
"Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest."
Douglas William Jerrold
"Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration."
Lou Erickson
"Old Gardeners Never Die, They Just Spade Away."
Author Unknown
"There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling."
Mirabel Osler
"A garden is never so good as it will be next year."
Thomas Cooper
"The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him there."
George Bernard Shaw
"The work of a garden bears visible fruits - in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless."
Pat Brown
"Give weeds an inch and they'll take your yard."
Author Unknown
"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses."
Hanna Rion
Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.
Gerard De Nerval
"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
Quite overcanopied with lucious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with elgantine."
William Shakespeare
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
Iris Murdoch
The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.
John Boyle O’Reilly
Deep in their root, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile, some have a sad expression, some are pensive and difident, others again are plain, honest and upright.
Henry Ward Beecher
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin
I'd be a butterfly born in a bower,
Where roses and lilies and violets meet.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:
William Butler Yeats
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
John F. Kennedy
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.
Clare Ansberry
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
William Shakespeare
"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn."
Henry David Thoreau
