Gardening Quotes

A garden is where we negotiate with nature – a place between the wild and the tame.

Vik Muniz

If you have a garden and a library ~ you have everything you need.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.

Luther Burbank

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Audrey Hepburn

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.

Clare Ansberry

The way out of the asylum is through the garden.

I cannot live without a library, and I cannot live without a garden.

Vik Muniz

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one’s garden.

Voltaire

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

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

As a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process; as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible. All of us have had the experience of wandering through a lush garden or a timeless desert, walking by a river or an ocean, or climbing a mountain and finding ourselves simultaneously calmed and reinvigorated, engaged in mind, refreshed in body and spirit. The importance of these physiological states on individual and community health is fundamental and wide-ranging. In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical “therapy” to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.

Oliver Sacks

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Oscar de la Renta

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

Francis Bacon

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.

Monet

Kiss of the sun for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth. You’re closer to God’s heart in a garden than any place else on earth.

Dorothy Frances Gurney

Gardening is learning, learning, learning.

Helen Mirren

Gardening is a humbling experience.

Martha Stewart

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.

Janet Kilburn Phillips

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies, but never grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

Gertrude Jekyll

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.

Minnie Aumonier

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.

Allan Armitage

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

I like gardening. It’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

Alice Sebold

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

May Sarton

If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

Robert Brault

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors.

Mary Cantwell

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

A A Milne

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

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

C Z Guest

What you plant today you will harvest tomorrow.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

William Cowper

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

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

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

Lillie Langtry

All gardening is landscape painting.

William Kent

Use plants to bring life.

Douglas Wilson

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.

Hanna Rion

Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise.

Michael P Garofalo

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

Mrs C W Earle

In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.

Robert Rodale

Life begins the day you start a garden.

Chinese Proverb

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

W E Johns

Gardeners learn by trowel and error.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

Robert Breault

My garden is my favorite teacher.

Betsy Cañas Garmon

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Linnaeus

However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

Abraham Cowley

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Vera Nazarian

Money can’t buy happiness. But it can buy plants, and that’s the same thing.

You can bury any number of headaches in the garden.

Charles Barnard

Do not spread the compost on the weeds.

Shakespeare

Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

Martha Smith

In nature, nothing exists alone.

Rachel Carson

A garden is a silent, loyal friend and a great listener.

Empress of Dirt

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint and the soil and sky as canvas.

Elizabeth Murray

A garden is never finished.

Shunryu Suzuki

To garden is a solitary act.

Michelle Cliff

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

Germaine Greer

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

Christian Nestell Bovee

A garden is not a picture, but a language.

Henry Mitchell

A garden is a friend you can visit any time.

Okakura Kakuzo

A garden is half made when it is well planned.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.

Richard Briers

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Rumer Godden

A garden is never so good as it will be next year.

Thomas Cooper

My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world.

Josephine de Beauharnais

To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

Eleanor Perenyi

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

W E Johns

The most beautiful garden is always the one that we have made it with our own efforts.

Mehmet Murat ildan

The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.

Beatrix Farrand

If a garden is well maintained and neatly landscaped, there must be a dedicated and efficient gardener.

Mr Lee

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.

Richardson Wright

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

May Sarton

When your garden is finished I hope it will be more beautiful that you anticipated, require less care than you expected, and have cost only a little more than you had planned.

Thomas Church

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.

Elisabeth Murdoch

Gardening is like landscape painting to me. The garden is the canvas. Plants, containers and other garden features are the colours. I paint on the garden of canvas hoping to create a masterpiece with my colours.

Ama H Vanniarachchy

A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.

Roberto Burle Marx

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 colour, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

Roberto Burle Marx

My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I established myself here, there was nothing but a farmhouse and a poor orchard...I bought the house and little by little I enlarged and organized it...I dug, planted weeded, myself; in the evenings the children watered.

Monet