Gardening Quotes · Page 44

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

— Charles Bowden

“What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best.”

— Amélie Nothomb

“If I were my own flower, I’d bloom in your darkest hour.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

— Anonymous

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

— Jonathan Davis

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

— Orson Scott Card

Never a daisy grows, but a mystery guideth the growing.

— Richard Realf

I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were…

— Francesca Lia Block

Friends are the flowers in the garden of life, beginning with a seed of trust, nurtured with laughter and tears, growing into…

— Nishan Panwar

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and…

— Anne Lamott

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

— Thomas Huxley

“The sun was directly overhead, bright against the flower’s exterior. Warm blueish-purple silhouettes pirouetted and danced along interior walls.”

— James Qualls

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last…

— Anonymous

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

— Charles Dowding

There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as…

— Elizabeth Aston

“My mother hmms and goes to the kitchen, where cupboards dug into the clay wall are filled with round fruits of orange…

— Olivia A. Cole

“The rapid growth of Message- combined with an outpouring of florists offering consultations in the language of flowers to the streams of…

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an…

— Leo Lionni

The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I…

— Luther Burbank

Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place…

— Edmund White

When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among…

— Dag Hammarskjold

Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants…

— Robert Aris Willmott

No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!

— Matthew McConaughey

Flowers produce an effect on me which can only be produced in an equal degree by music.

— Charlotte Alington Barnard

“If you'd like to gain a new understanding of expenses and losses, get into gardening.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

And...I think that's what life is all about, actually, about children and flowers.

— Audrey Hepburn

Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.

— Henry Beard

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

— William Shakespeare

“It is better to be in chains with friends than to be in a garden with strangers.”

— Persian Proverb

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

— Miranda July

“Love is like a flower it grows into something beautiful.”

— Donnajo Calhoun

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

— Margaret Lindsay

Friendship is a beautiful gift, in the garden of life.

— Anonymous

“Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.”

— Clare Ansberry

Take time to your friends because they are the flower of our life...

— Mariane Corbito

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

— Joni Mitchell

“Even love matures. It's like a flower. Cherish it while it blooms.”

— Hisaya Nakajo