Gardening Quotes · Page 63

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

— Beverley Nichols

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

“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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Julie Newmar

I plant vegetables and every time I see a flower I'm like, 'I'm going to get a vegetable in a few weeks!'

— Wunmi Mosaku

By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute,…

— Anne Fortier

Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people.

— Andrew Jackson Downing

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there was a big gardening convention, and you got up and gave a speech in favor of fast-motion gardening, I bet…

— Jack Handey

“But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand…

— Margaret Atwood

I learned a lot while labouring and gardening. Whenever I feel tired and want to go home while doing TV work, I…

— Gethin Jones

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my…

— Deborah Moggach

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their…

— Theophrastus

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months…

— Alice Morse Earle

“Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep for our brutish ears. And flowers…

— Yann Martel

“To gaze at flowers is to plunge into the center of the world, and through the proliferation of forms that overwhelm us…

— Claude Nuridsany

“Make your books your companions, let your cases and shelves be your pleasure grounds and gardens. Bask in their paradise, gather their…

— Samuel ibn Tibbon

Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience,…

— May Sarton

“I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age. Everybody says its finished ... art's finished, rock and roll…

— Patti Smith

“A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary…

— Agona Apell

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

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

— Melchor Lim

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

— Guy Browning

I'm obsessed with my couch. I have the greenest couch on the planet.

— Madison Keys

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

— Victor Hugo

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

— Libba Bray

I got them flowers in me, I feel like a vase. Monsters in my closet no more closet space.

— Lil Wayne

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

— Thomas Cooper

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

— Dorothy Malone

Sometimes you have to wait for that root to grow into a beautiful flower.

— Alyssa Tillmon

Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.

— Tom Turner

We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place.

— John M. Grunsfeld

The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson