Gardening Quotes · Page 82

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.

— Jane Austen

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.

— William Howard Adams

May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers.

— Shantideva

“And so we are like flowers; and bloom only, when the sun, kisses us.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.

— Wendell Berry

Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

— Voltaire

Let's all sign petitions to make Earthships and organic home gardens the normality.

— Syesha Mercado

In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they…

— Costa Georgiadis

Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship…

— Edwin Lutyens

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between…

— Ken Thompson

A miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept our new responsibility to collectively tend the Garden, rather than fight over the…

— Bruce H. Lipton

“History doesn't remember gardens. … You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel…

— Andrew Ashling

“Watch batteries gleam in the center of dark flowers. Henna painted with conductive ink, waiting to be turned on.”

— Alex Livingston

“He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden, 'Is not EVERY garden a botanical garden?”

— James Boswell

“Eden is within you; it is your life's garden. It is from this internal garden that you experience your external life. If…

— Steve Maraboli

“Who knows why that man planted those fields? Perhaps he knew we’d need the flowers for a cure. Maybe he just thought…

— Ally Condie

As a child in South Carolina, I spent summers like so many children - sitting on my grandparents' back porch with my…

— Jacqueline Woodson

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the…

— Oscar Wilde

“[W]hat seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story is really going on. [...] [F]or the honey bee,…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may…

— Winston Churchill

“Silently a flower blooms, In silence if falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the…

— Lilli Jolgren Day

“From the Garden” Come, my beloved, consider the lilies. We are of little faith. We talk too much. Put your mouthful of…

— Anne Sexton

“Plants began the process of land colonization about 450 million years ago, accompanied of necessity by tiny mites and other organisms which…

— Bill Bryson

“I may be partial to roses, but I am not a fragile flower”

— Renee Ahdieh

Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

— Henry Norman Hudson

“A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Flowers live their lives with or without our approval, look how beautiful they are for it.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

— Ken Kesey

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

— Christian Dior

I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

— Kehinde Wiley

“As the flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.”

— Amit Ray

In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

— Alexander Smith

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.

— Lillie Langtry

Even the most colorful garden appear like a graveyard without you.

— Shalini

“By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

A plant is only worth growing if it looks good when it is dead.

— Piet Oudolf

Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

— Jeremiah

“You are my flower and I am your stem holding you to the light.”

— Poppet