Gardening Quotes · Page 45

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

— Jane Austen

“A flower’s beauty is birthed in a seed’s ugly struggles.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

It is Satan who is the God of our planet and the only God.

— H. P. Blavatsky

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

— Pablo Neruda

“...as if I were only a flower after all and not the map of the country in which it grows.”

— John Ashbery

The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

… all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

— Meister Eckhart

Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

— Morihei Ueshiba

[...] even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of…

— Meg Cabot

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent…

— Honore de Balzac

“I will not ask where thou liest low, Nor gaze upon the spot; There flowers or weeds at will may grow, So…

— Lord Byron

I am a scientist who studies plants. I like plants. I think about plants almost every hour of the day, and several…

— Hope Jahren

“What long-dead face makes here the grass so green? On what earth-buried bosom do we lean? Ah! love, when we in turn…

— Richard Le Gallienne

Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.

— William Tyler

“I am (obviously) much in love with plants and above all trees, and always have been; and I find human maltreatment of…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

— Russell Page

“Look natural, that is the best way. Flowers, plants, and animals are all content with how they look—satisfied with nature's endowment. Only…

— Betty Jamie Chung

When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If…

— Emilia Fox

The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek…

— Lucan

“I recommend, especially at the beginning, that you plant only what you want to eat. Occasionally try something new, of course, but…

— Mel Bartholomew

Gardening does so much for your brain. You're learning how a process works, and how important it is to do everything right…

— Marc Gasol

“In the landscape of my native land, a stranger in my own fields, --I had a homeland where the Duero flows between…

— Antonio Machado

I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring.…

— Edward Giobbi

There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that…

— Billy Graham

A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way..

— Charles Baudelaire

The wind might blow away the petals of a flower but never let it blow away yours.

— Akila Sultana

Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

— Mabel Osgood Wright

“Gardening is easier than it is often made out to be.”

— Charles Dowding

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

— Samuel Johnson

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

— Oscar Wilde

“If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I want you to understand what you are doing, not just perform tasks because I say so.”

— Charles Dowding

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?

— Beverley Nichols

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

— May Sarton

Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

— Amy Waldman

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

— Douglas William Jerrold