Gardening Quotes · Page 3

You love flowers, but you cut them. You love animals, but you eat them. You tell me you love me, so now…

— Anonymous

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

— William Shakespeare

Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous…

— Allen Lacy

I like to garden, particularly mowing grass.

— Rita Tushingham

It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.

— Lena Horne

Don't continue to water a dead flower, plant a new seed.

— Melchor Lim

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

— Rudyard Kipling

“The key to happiness lies in a plant...”

— Ken Agrawal

Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's…

— Jody Watley

Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but…

— George Grey

“I don't even like regular plants. Except for corsages and long-stemmed roses...and those only hurt when they don't show up.”

— Rachel Vincent

Personality is to a person, what fragrence is to flower

— Anonymous

Flowers are my music.

— Thomas Walker Arnold

Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make…

— Mort Sahl

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

— Robert Breault

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

— Rick Bragg

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

— W. H. Davies

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

— Margaret Atwood

As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in…

— Anthony de Mello

Generosity is the flower of justice.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“A flower that refuses to bloom robs the world of its beauty.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't crowded…

— Wu-Men

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly…

— Terry Pratchett

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

— Les Brown