Gardening Quotes · Page 220

Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness,…

— Tiffany Baker

Woke up today with a bunch of rose flower in my hand and a spade;not for you,but for your garden.

— Pshaw Raymond

“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

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard…

— Emily Dickinson

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