Best Garden Sayings

2106 Garden quotes by 1278 unique authors

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin… — Maya Angelou
If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants,… — Henry Beston
In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin… — W S Merwin
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house… — Abraham Cowley
Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking… — Yoshida Kenko
There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts… — Henry Mitchell
One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be… — Edward Augustus Bowles
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The… — Frank Zappa
You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the… — Nhat Hanh
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss. — Edmund Spenser
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. — Rumer Godden
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden. — Rudyard Kipling
A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I… — Czeslaw Milosz
A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign. — Nan Fairbrother
A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a… — Paul Fleischman
I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that… — Maria Edgeworth
Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism. — Sukarno
The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows. — Vita Sackville-West
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. — Henri Frederic Amiel
... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the… — Nan Fairbrother
They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain… — Thomas More
If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience… — Wendell Berry
The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest. — Jeff Cox
Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that… — Masanobu Fukuoka

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