Best Garden Thoughts
2106 Garden quotes by 1278 unique authors
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All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.
— Reginald Farrer
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
— John Ruskin
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Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
— Phyllis McGinley
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Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.
— Henry Mitchell
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I am fonder of my garden for the trouble it gives me.
— Reginald Farrer
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Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.
— Diane Ackerman
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I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
— May Sarton
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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
— Prince Charles
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This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
— Leigh Hunt
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More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.
— Marie Curie
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Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
— Ruth Stout
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Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.
— Henry Mitchell
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With plants, persuasion is better than force.
— Unknown Author
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An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.
— Richard Briers
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Gardening is the best therapy in the world.
— C. Z. Guest
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The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.
— H E Bates
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A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.
— Richard Briers
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
— Plutarch
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Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?
— Henry David Thoreau
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What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In the end, there is really nothing more important than taking care of the earth and letting it take care of you.
— Charles Scott
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The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
— Phyllis McGinley
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