Gardening Quotes · Page 37

Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

— Morihei Ueshiba

A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way..

— Charles Baudelaire

The wind might blow away the petals of a flower but never let it blow away yours.

— Akila Sultana

Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

— Mabel Osgood Wright

“Gardening is easier than it is often made out to be.”

— Charles Dowding

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

— Samuel Johnson

Spread your wings and the goodness from within to all trees and flowers that await the essence of you...

— Anonymous

We were brought up with having a love of your garden, having somewhere you can go in, it's your little sanctuary, you…

— Ainsley Harriott

“In the garden of dreams, there are many great seeds of possibilities waiting to sprout - looking for your attention - the…

— Amit Ray

Every flower blooms just as every flower dies, but it lives long enough to provide beauty in the world.

— LostInTears

“It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture…

— Charles Dickens

In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would,…

— Diane Ackerman

The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.

— Anne Geddes

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“For now the world keeps turning and I keep breathing, in and out, in and out. I breathe in the life that…

— Clare Furniss

One reason we planted the White House vegetable garden was to set an example about what food can mean, but to also…

— Michelle Obama

Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because…

— Ray Bradbury

“Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There…

— Annie Dillard

With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“That night the first frost of autumn struck Tucker's Grove. It crept up from the ground, snaring the fragile roots of plants.…

— Kevin J. Anderson

How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience…

— David E. Cooper

“The flowers themselves were strong and hardy. They filled the green with color and thrived on Camp Lakeview's land. Together. They spent…

— Melissa J. Morgan

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

— Oscar Wilde

“If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I want you to understand what you are doing, not just perform tasks because I say so.”

— Charles Dowding

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

— Beverley Nichols

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

— May Sarton

Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

— Amy Waldman

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

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

— Julie Newmar

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

— Anonymous

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

I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

— Zac Posen