Garden Quotes

2106 Garden quotes by 1278 unique authors

The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on. — Ruth Stout
The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn. — Unknown Author
Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel. — Herbert V. Prochnow
Who would have thought it possible that a tiny flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought... — Sophie Scholl
What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it… — Dorothy Gilman
Bloom where you are planted! — Mary Engelbreit
He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to… — Celia Thaxter
To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the… — George Washington
We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what… — William Vogt
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold
All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil. — William Butler Yeats
Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite… — Victoria Glendinning
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. — Robert Bridges
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. — Russell Page
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. — Charles Lamb
It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp… — Eleanor Perenyi
When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved. — Frank Arthur Swinnerton
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling… — Henry Mitchell
Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job. — George Bernard Shaw
Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing… — Nachman of Breslov
There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people. — Reginald Horace Blyth
The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what… — Abhinavagupta

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