Gardening Quotes · Page 83

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

— Syesha Mercado

“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

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

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

— Jane Austen

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

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

— Walt Disney

Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

— Alfred Noyes

“Quite simply, plants don’t want to be eaten—and who can blame them? Like any living thing, their instinct is to propagate the…

— Steven R. Gundry

Feel that your body is like a bundle of flowers. When someone gives you flowers you enjoy their beauty, their purity. But…

— Frederick Lenz

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

— Mary McCarthy

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

— Carine Roitfeld

I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built…

— Udo Kier

I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose…

— Martha Ronk

“Brief dark shadow of a downtown tree, light sound of water falling into the sad pool, green of the trimmed lawn –…

— Fernando Pessoa

Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle,…

— Tom Turner

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One…

— Robert Bly

In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a…

— Donald Judd

“The roses bloomed, thousands of them in a floral amphitheater, blossoms shading from gold and coral at the top of the garden…

— Allegra Goodman

“The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor. And any tree that does not bear…

— Kedar Joshi

“When everyone arrived at the formal garden, lunch had been laid out on the terrace by unseen hands. Bowls of strawberries and…

— Ellen Herrick

Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness,…

— Tiffany Baker

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

— Wendell Berry

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

— Alexander Smith

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

— Amit Ray

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

— Shalini

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

— Lillie Langtry

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

— Ken Kesey

“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

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

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

— Jeremiah

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

— Piet Oudolf

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

— Poppet

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

— S. Kelley Harrell

My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds.

— David Hobson

She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.

— John Dryden