Gardening Quotes · Page 48

I photograph [people] as if photographing flowers.

— Mona Kuhn

“Love blooms like a flower, but only the expression of love fills it with fragrance”

— Toddly Publications

A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume.

— Richard Wurmbrand

Age is just a number? Yeah and weed is just a plant!!!!!

— Humaira

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

— Ellsworth Kelly

The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is.

— Nikki Yanofsky

“Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?”

— Margaret Atwood

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

— George Bernard Shaw

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies…

— Francis Bacon

“just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers so…

— Jean Houston

“In the right frame of mind, to walk from one room in a house to another can be exploration of the highest…

— Robert Macfarlane

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that…

— Anonymous

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day.…

— Jane Austen

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

— Felicia Hemans

You have to put your partner and family at the top of the list and there must be downtime - time for…

— Shirley Ballas

The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring…

— Thomas Guthrie

“How wonderful that must be! What we call spring here is one rose and a couple of buds struggling to keep alive…

— Albert Camus

I go five steps in the garden, and I immediately lose track of time... it is a kind of joy in being…

— W. S. Merwin

A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't…

— George M. Church

“Other than involving yourself with ungrateful vegetable matter, colour, vigour and fascination can be imparted into a small outdoor space by several…

— Vic Darkwood Gustav Temple

When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their…

— Samuel Johnson

I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun . . . I am the mist of…

— Rumi

“There aren’t enough pages in this or any other book to catalog the amount of bad information on the Internet. Miracle cures,…

— Thomas M. Nichols

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about…

— Earl Nightingale

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

“my favorite urban flower, the baseball box score”

— Roger Angell

I want to keep trying something new all the time. It is the only way to grow.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

A garden is a reflection of you, it's your presence in the world.

— Julie Newmar

I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.

— Anonymous

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

— Ken Thompson

“A flower does not bloom for itself, but for the world; do likewise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

— Zac Posen

To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.

— Guy Browning

I don't know what we're put on this planet to do but we're here damn it!

— Melchor Lim

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