Garden Quotes

2106 Garden quotes by 1278 unique authors

A garden is the best alternative therapy. — Germaine Greer
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt… — Lewis Gannett
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place. — Donald C. Peattie
The garden that is finished is dead. — H E Bates
It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree. — Unknown Author
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for… — David Hobson
Garden as though you will live forever. — William Kent
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. — Liberty Hyde Bailey
If a tree dies, plant another in its place. — Carl Linnaeus
I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. — Alice Sebold
A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends ... — Tim Smit
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. — William Shakespeare
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of. — Helena Rutherfurd Ely
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be… — Thomas Huxley
Nature abhors a garden. — Michael Pollan
Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life. — Unknown Author
If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer. — Saint John Chrysostom
In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener. — Unknown Author
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man,… — Francis Bacon
I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself. — Unknown Author
The secret of landscapes isn't creation...It's maintenance. — Michael Dolan
Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers. — Lady Bird Johnson
An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up. — Unknown Author
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. — William Wordsworth

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