Gardening Quotes · Page 90

When you get older, you mature, and you start liking flowers. Although I try and keep it manly.

— David Beckham

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

— Jean Cocteau

Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day.

— Rhonda Byrne

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

— Octave Mirbeau

A flower for you just to tell you how colourful you have made my day, sweet xoxo.

— Niidoodo

“The plants and flowers I raised about my hut I now surrender To the will Of the wind”

— Ryokan

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.

— Ambrose Philips

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

— Walt Whitman

“Watch batteries gleam in the center of dark flowers. Henna painted with conductive ink, waiting to be turned on.”

— Alex Livingston

Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

— Wendell Berry

“I now call trees "tree beings," flowers and shrubs "plant beings," and lakes and rivers "water beings." They are as alive as…

— Anonymous

“Pluck thou my flower, Oothoon the mild; Another flower shall spring, because the soul of sweet delight Can never pass away.”

— William Blake

All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.”

— Mirabel Osler

Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach…

— Jens Jensen

I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby…

— Alex Honnold

Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons,…

— Charles Heiser

I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't…

— Eoin Colfer

Some kids have never seen what a real tomato looks like off the vine. They don't know where a cucumber comes from.…

— Michelle Obama

When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close…

— Rob Bell

The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a…

— Thomas Moore

Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's…

— Henry Mitchell

“She rose and washed and dressed herself and braided her hair freshly, and having made her room neat for the day she…

— Pearl S. Buck

To early man, trees were objects of awe and wonder. The mystery of their growth, the movement of their leaves and branches,…

— Ruskin Bond

“the delicate fragrance of rose hips lingered on my fingers from tending the garden .”

— Meeta Ahluwalia

The garden is something I always try to get into, but it always beats me.

— Dominic Holland

Don't complain of the soil in which you were born, but rather of the plant you are living with.

— Vikrant Parsai

Women...out of all the tools in the garden,why would you want to be the hoe

— Anomosity

I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

— Pawan Kalyan

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

— Anonymous

Under the trees of her dream garden, there had always walked a lover

— Anonymous

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

— Nan Fairbrother

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

— Anonymous

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

— Rumi

I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.

— Udo Kier

In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

— Alexander Smith

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Many events plant seeds, imperceptible at the time, that bear fruit long afterward.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“If life gives you seeds, grow flowers ... / Si la vida te da semillas, cultiva flores...”

— John F. Bisner Ureña

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

— Lillie Langtry