Gardening Quotes · Page 51

“when you live among the flowers, you don't think about the mud.”

— Philippe Claudel

“A gardener tending to his flowers is as noble as a warrior battling his opponents.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Everyone knows on this planet I'm obsessed with Beyonce.

— Alana Haim

Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year.

— Richardson Wright

Even if I was the only keeper left on the planet, I would still be trying to get better.

— Joe Hart

“A flower should smell sweet, and a woman should have wit.”

— Victor Hugo

“society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never see’.”

— James Kerr

“If you strip away my flowery language, you’ll figure out I’m really talking about bees.”

— Jarod Kintz

“do you think flowers will grow here when you and i are off building something new with someone else - the construction…

— Rupi Kaur

“Quite simply, plants don’t want to be eaten—and who can blame them? Like any living thing, their instinct is to propagate the…

— Steven R. Gundry

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

— Walt Disney

Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

— Alfred Noyes

I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built…

— Udo Kier

I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose…

— Martha Ronk

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

— Carine Roitfeld

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

— Mary McCarthy

Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the…

— Hal Borland

“Somewhere there are gardens where peacocks sing like nightingales, somewhere there are caravans of separated lovers traveling to meet each other; there…

— K.J. Bishop

Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look…

— Nhat Hanh

“When we dig in the soil and plant a seed, we enter into a cycle of restoration that produces wholeness in us.…

— Jerusalem Jackson Greer

“At death, therefore, we shall enter into the garden: but only at the return of Christ and the resurrection can we obtain…

— G.H. Pember

“The garden was Adam’s house, but Eve was his home and his companion in achieving his true purpose. Earth’s first love story…

— Lynn G. Robbins

What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than…

— Aristotle

“The child, laughing with joy and awe at the sight of the first violet understands far more in the deepest terms than…

— The child laughing with joy and awe at the sight of the first violet understands far more in the dee

“Gardens are made of darkness and light entwined.”

— F.T. McKinstry

No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.

— Alfred Austin

“For fun and for life, through life's changes, look to be inspired, to stay gardening.”

— Chris Eirschele

I am fonder of my garden for the trouble it gives me.

— Reginald Farrer

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

— William Pitt

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One thing is certain and the rest is Lies;/The Flower that once has blown forever dies.”

— Edward FitzGerald

“It won't be a chore, it will be a garden,' Holena said.”

— Jeannie Mobley

One atom is as purposeful as our planet. What is in one is in the whole.

— Caroline Myss

If I'm honest, the thing I am proudest of is my varieties of wild flowers in the hay meadow.

— Monty Don

If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.

— Stephen Covey

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

— Francis Bacon

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

— Jean Cocteau

“My master’s degree in botany makes me pretty sure plants need wet dirt to grow in.”

— Andy Weir

Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers, plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.

— Anonymous

So small, so blue, in grassy places / My flowers raise / Their tiny faces.

— Cicely Mary Barker