Gardening Quotes · Page 63

I was raised by vegan parents, and we ate out of my backyard garden for my whole life.

— Madelaine Petsch

“If a flower you covet, straightway you are told it is another's.”

— August Strindberg

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

— Sophocles

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

— St. Catherine of Siena

I was too shy to be around real people. It wasn't like old ladies talking to plants.

— Michael Jackson

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

— Chogyam Trungpa

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

— Mary Wesley

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Emily Dickinson

The Garden of Gethsemane is halfway up the Mount of Olives, where Christ grappled with his courage during those last dark hours…

— Carol Drinkwater

Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.

— Robert Hunter

“It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you…

— Bruce Lee

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

— Thomas Jefferson

Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy…

— Mary Howitt

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the…

— Joseph Addison

Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only…

— Michael Pollan

It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed…

— Joseph Joubert

A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and…

— Nhat Hanh

I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been…

— Juliana Hatfield

“love were a garden, dating would be the weed killer. Unfortunately, many times the worst weeds survive the initial application, often requiring…

— Alaina Stanford

This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“Our bonfire burns brightly, alighting our hot harvest. Scarce seeds of winter's heat, as its first dawn inflames. Sprouting into a plant…

— Susan L. Marshall

A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.

— Max Lucado

Break the rules - put a plant or a floral arrangement in a room that you wouldn't expect!

— Jeremiah Brent

Just like plants people also withering, dying. Make life significance before it is too late.

— Innah Delos Angeles

“Gardens in Spring with flowers abound their scent interwoven in the wind”

— Meeta Ahluwalia

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

— Anonymous

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

— Michael Pollan

From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

— Yehuda Amichai

gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

— May Sarton

I've realized that I really like spending time in the countryside and having a garden.

— Doutzen Kroes

“Your eyes, now gleaming dark obsidian, Now deep and somber velvet jungle flowers.”

— Gertrud Kolmar

If a house has no garden, the whole earth becomes its garden!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I have acid rain in my brain and it's killing the flowers in my heart.”

— Marianna Page

He who does not love flowers has lost all love and fear of God.

— Johann Ludwig Tieck

“How beautiful is God's Garden and yet most people don't see it.”

— Roland R Kemler

“Here is a dream-life: A life amongst the flowers!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

— Henry David Thoreau