Gardening Quotes · Page 46

The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.

— George Herbert

If I had a flower for every time I thought about you, I could walk through my garden forever.

— Austin:D

“- Nothing. Although they are flowers you did not count on, they are still part of the garden.”

— Paulo Coelho

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

— William Cowper

Wherever the Legionary’s hand and soul show up, a garden appears.

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.

— Anna Bartlett Warner

Love is like a plant, the more one waters, the more it grows

— Niidoodo

I love animals and plants and sometimes even people.

— Drew Chadwick

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It was not the sun, but the moonlight that shimmered in the garden, edging the leaves with silver and touching the outlines…

— Diane Setterfield

“Despairing of human relationships (people were so difficult), she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which…

— Virginia Woolf

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling…

— Francis Thompson

“A beautiful person is protected like a beautiful flower in a garden which many gardeners tend.”

— Bryant McGill

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.

— Jeff Buckley

“If the butterflies don’t dance, the ants don’t march, and the bees don’t come in a swarm — that’s it.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt…

— Vita Sackville-West

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot,…

— Diane Ackerman

Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden…

— Ouida

A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed…

— Charlotte Bronte

For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

“Lilacs on a bush are better than orchids. And dandelions and devil grass are better! Why? Because they bend you over and…

— Ray Bradbury

“He can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and longing, and he can…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“There are many paths leading to a garden and many experiences awaiting those who venture in. No matter what your motive—whether to…

— Jane Shellenberger

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and…

— Andrew Weil

There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.

— Attila the Hun

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

— Barbra Streisand

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

— Loren Eiseley

“Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is like a flower - you've got to let it grow.

— John Lennon

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness.

— Chogyam Trungpa

“The past is another country, but the Seventies is another planet.”

— Mark Steyn

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.

— Soundarya

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

— Van Morrison

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

— George Eliot

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

— Dan Castellaneta

I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.

— Lizz Wright

My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it.

— Peter Coyote

Always do your best, plant know and then harvest later

— Hussein Nishah