Gardening Quotes · Page 73

“There is nothing in the world so patient as a plant awaiting spring.”

— T. Kingfisher

London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

— William Dunbar

If I had a flower for every time I missed you I would be walking forever in my own garden.

— Author Name

You can trace the entire history of Britain by looking at gardens.

— Monty Don

We have to continue to grow within and outwardly. We have to keep going.

— Scott Avett

The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.

— Richard Evans Schultes

Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.

— Anthony de Mello

Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.

— Rumi

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

— Jan Struther

I like to walk around. And I have a really big garden in Brooklyn. Growing tomatoes in my backyard feels very rewarding.

— Anna Ewers

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will…

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

If I had a flower For every time u made me smile & laugh I'd have a garden to walk in forever..!!

— Mýväñwý Mêghä

I've got a little vegetable patch in my garden. I moved from a city apartment into a house this year and needed…

— Lucy Bronze

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

— Robert Breault

“when snow falls i long for grass when grass grows i walk all over it when leaves change colour i beg for…

— Rupi Kaur

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

— Vita Sackville-West

When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may…

— John Godfrey Saxe

“Not roses or carnations, chrysanthemums or tulips. For her, Gerbera daisies, not because of the 30 species, the fifth-most cut flower in…

— Teresa Leo

As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing…

— Michael Pollan

Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…

— Henry Walter Bates

“And so the one in our garden continued its growth peacefully, as did thousands like it in neglected spots all over the…

— John Wyndham

“Look, Samuel, I mean to make a garden of my land. Remember my name is Adam. So far I’ve had no Eden,…

— John Steinbeck

Is it too ingenuous to imagine that anything can be left to say about a garden? Garden literature, descriptive, reminiscent, and technical,…

— Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Begin with me, barefoot, under the almond tree... —Sam (a character in Mildred's Garden)”

— Laura Boggess

I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.

— Antoni Porowski

To be able to buy a plant and plant it, that's a luxury to me.

— Zac Posen

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

— Lee Trevino

For the mind to flower it has to go beyond what it knows.

— Mother Meera

The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole

— Stevie Smith

Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead

— Suzanne Collins

For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.

— Matsuo Basho

“Wherever her feet pass, white flowers part the grass.”

— L.J. Smith

A single rose can be my garden... just you can be my world.

— Kira

“Searching for a fruitful tree is better than sitting in a fruitless garden.”

— Shaikh Mahmud bin Ilyas

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You tend your garden and I'll tend mine. Good fences make good neighbors.

— Anonymous

“this morning I told the flowers what I'd do for you and they blossomed”

— Rupi Kaur

“The prettiest flowers earn their honor in the ugliest dirt.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo