Gardening Quotes · Page 55

In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with…

— Walt Whitman

“Most humans are weeds... but some are flowers.”

— Shawn Stern

I was more of, like, into butterflies, insects, playing out in the yard, planting flowers. I was really into plants.

— Farrah Abraham

“Years ago, when she'd studied the constructions of stem, blade, stamen, ovule, she loved the infinite possibilities of the plant kingdom- but…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

If you want to know why you were placed on the planet, you must begin with God.

— Rick Warren

"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our…

— Alphonsus Liguori

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around…

— Michael Palin

What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would…

— Thomas Huxley

A lot of men tend to mix a couple of fragrances and smell like a flower garden. Avoid!

— Fawad Khan

“11. Life in the Concrete. Life in the concrete, which we are living, greatly differs from life in the abstract, which exists…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Let's build a battery plant here.

— Keith Hobbs

Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a…

— Charlotte Bronte

Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against…

— Ellen G. White

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

— Carlos Santana

“Vespers In your extended absence, you permit me use of earth, anticipating some return on investment. I must report failure in my…

— Louise Gluck

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

— Oscar Wilde

“Nature in her creative dreaming, dreamt the same thing both here and there, and if one spoke of imitation, then certainly it…

— Thomas Mann

My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

— Gary Snyder

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like sunless garden when the flowers are dead

— Anonymous

“We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every…

— Carol Deppe

Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up…

— Emilio Estevez

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be…

— Jane Addams

If a single flower can be my garden then a single true friend can be my entire world.

— Unkown

I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not?

— Eva Mendes

“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

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.

— Paul Verlaine

“I was a vegetarian of sorts," he replied, "but the difference between animal and vegetable isn't as clearly defined on my home…

— Lucy Snyder

“I just learned two things there at that college, Mr. Ford, that was ever of any use to me. One was that…

— Jim Thompson

Plant this magic seed.

— Robin Thicke

“Joseph would reach out to me occasionally, the same way the desert blooms a flower every now and then. You get so…

— Aimee Bender

Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation…

— Marie-Luise Gothein

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

— Stella Benson

“At the end of the day, to sit in my garden is to finally awaken”

— Nature Conservancy

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

— Walt Disney

“Your soil and plants are friends that benefit from constant care and attention to the details I explain.”

— Charles Dowding

“What ever was fair? What ever is? You put one foot in front of the other and you walk through all of…

— Jo-Ann Mapson

“...fill the holes with facts, not flowers.”

— Pete Dexter

In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like…

— Tom Robbins