Gardening Quotes

312 quotes by 249 authors

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. — Margaret Atwood
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on… — Alfred Austin
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. — Alfred Austin
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. — Alfred Austin
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? — Douglas Adams
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. — Joseph Addison
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. — Georges Bernanos
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry
I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual… — Jacqueline Bisset
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity… — William Blake
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of… — Sitting Bull
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. — Luther Burbank
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. — Luther Burbank
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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

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