Gardening Quotes · Page 79

“If no one on this planet ever loves you, I always will.”

— C.J. Reid

“…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?”

— John Wyndham

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

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

— Akila Sultana

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

— Charles Dowding

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

— Mabel Osgood Wright

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

— Morihei Ueshiba

If someone throws a rock at you,throw a flower at them, but make sure the flower is still in the pot.

— Anonymous

I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable…

— Mary McGrory

I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter.

— Anne Sexton

Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.

— Kim Wilde

Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a…

— Emily Carr

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of…

— Billy Graham

I love indoor plants. It makes any room feel open, fresh and homey. Keeping them alive is always a fun challenge for…

— Karlie Kloss

You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time,…

— Seth Godin

“That night, I fell into a deep, travel-weary sleep, lulled by the familiar sound of the waterfall beyond the window. I dreamed…

— Hazel Gaynor

White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“The garden shimmered with candlelight from dozens of sweetly scented beeswax tapers set around to illuminate the space. In the center stood…

— Tracy Anne Warren

All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the crisp…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting,…

— Anonymous

“Behind her the sun was still shining, so that every grove and every single tree between her and the storm blazed ardent…

— Philip Pullman

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

— Charles Baudelaire

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

— Pablo Neruda

… all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

— Meister Eckhart

“...as if I were only a flower after all and not the map of the country in which it grows.”

— John Ashbery

The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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

— Beverley Nichols

Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

— Amy Waldman

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

— May Sarton

“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

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Samuel Johnson

“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

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

— Douglas William Jerrold