Gardening Quotes · Page 68

It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.

— Paul Watson

Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

— Hayley Mills

I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice.

— Hannah Green

The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.

— Pietro Metastasio

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

— Carl Jung

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

— Henry Ward Beecher

If one leaves home one might get a flower pot on his head and die.

— Orlan

“gardens over. One of them was crying—maybe they both were—and there was a child bawling its head off,”

— Paula Hawkins

“Perhaps it’s time to stop growing flowers in bone cages. — Flowers in Bone Cages, Sophie Glynn”

— Sophie Glynn

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

— Homaro Cantu

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full…

— Francis Cabot Lowell

“Small pleasures must correct great tragedies, therefore of gardens in the midst of war I bold tell.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

— George Sand

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

— Gore Vidal

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

— Oliver Goldsmith

He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay,…

— Walter de La Mare

There's also a growing trend toward having gardens in schools to literally show kids where food comes from by having them grow…

— Eric Schlosser

They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more…

— Ina Garten

“There is something inn expressly touching in nature round Petersburg, when at the approach of spring she puts forth all her might,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“She felt vaguely upset and unsettled. She was suddenly tired of outworn dreams. And in the garden the petals of the last…

— L.M. Montgomery

“By creating flowers from plastic bags (which are made with substances derived from oil), he addresses the ecological concerns associated with the…

— Gwen Blakley Kinsler

I have heard people say, "I garden in lieu of therapy, but therapy would be cheaper." I believe gardening's worth the price…

— Janet Macunovich

The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts…

— Ann Zwinger

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

— Randy Houser

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

— Edvard Munch

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

— J. B. Smoove

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe in the separation of church and planet.

— Eric Idle

“The sovereign individual cannot escape to any degree the rules and practices of gardening.”

— Tom P. S. Angier

Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery

— Sappho

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.

— John Cleese

“Coorie gardens all have a place that encourages reflection and peacefulness.”

— Gabriella Bennett

We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

— Akiane Kramarik

“To pluck a flower means to take possession of it, and it also means to kill it.”

— Anthony Bloom

The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.

— Wayne Dyer

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

— John Hurt

I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

I like spending time in the garden with my houseplants. I'm a plant mom.

— Lily Gladstone