Gardening Quotes · Page 138

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

— George Washington

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors,…

— Luther Burbank

“The Avant Gardener feeds flowers to his manure and charges prices he believes are not to be sniffed at”

— Dean Cavanagh

“The enigma. The flowers that bloom in the dark shine the brightest. We bloom from the moonlight.”

— Antonia Perdu

The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force…

— Karl Blossfeldt

“She woke from dreamless rest to find her lap filled with wildflowers-blue and gold violets, white starworts with bright yellow centers, wild…

— Josie Litton

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

— Anonymous

We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows…

— Joan D. Chittister

“It’s worth noting, because the text just said the reason there was not yet a garden was because there was no rain…

— Danielle Shroyer

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

— Anonymous

“Certain plants, like certain friends, you enjoy having for a visit but do not care to see remain forever and a day.”

— Henry Sherman Adams

If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see…

— Alfred de Musset

“It is better to be in chains with friends than to be in a garden with strangers.”

— Persian Proverb

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

— Samuel Rutherford

There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.

— Thomas Campion

“Must not do evil tycoon in garden.”

— Amy Andrews

One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

— Robert Fortune

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Large or small, [the garden] should be orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by…

— William Morris

A spark in the sun, this tiny flower has roots deep in the cool earth.

— Harry Behn

A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

From the seed grows a root, then a sprout; from the sprout, the seedling leaves; from the leaves, the stem; around the…

— Mary Caroline Richards

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.

— Jeff Buckley

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

— Claude Monet

A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new…

— Thomas Traherne

Get your head out of the mud, baby. Put flowers in the mud, baby.

— U2

If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animalsand plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each…

— Lewis Mumford

“Flowers bloom in spring Oh, the sky spreads in summer They’re engraved and sparkling In my heart Rain falls in the morning…

— Kobato

“Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.”

— Shannon M Mullen

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can…

— George Bernard Shaw

There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.

— Ruth Stout

Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing…

— Carl Jung

It isn't the kind of profession that you have that makes you flourish; it's what you are coming from, within, that makes…

— John de Ruiter

Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

— Anonymous

People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.

— Anna Bartlett Warner

“The magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. I…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

— Lil Wayne

“The jester walked in the garden: The garden had fallen still; He bade his soul rise upward And stand on her window-sill.…

— W.B. Yeats

This planet below you is our campsite, and you know of no other campground.

— Kalpana Chawla

Love is like a plant, the more one waters, the more it grows

— Niidoodo