Best Gardening Qoutes

312 Gardening quotes by 235 unique authors

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. — Robert Louis Stevenson
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. — Rabindranath Tagore
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. — Rabindranath Tagore
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and… — Susan L. Taylor
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which… — Voltaire
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. — Alice Walker
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. — Bill Watterson
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The… — Daniel Webster
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and… — Andrew Weil
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world.… — Andrew Weil
A weed is but an unloved flower. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. — William Wordsworth
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. — Dorothy Parker
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope. — Rebecca Solnit
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. — Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor;… — Victor Hugo
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters — Thomas Jefferson
We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden. — Joni Mitchell
Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries. — Theodore Roethke
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. — Henry David Thoreau
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun… — Michael Pollan
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so… — Chuck Palahniuk
Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome. — Emily Dickinson
It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season. — Kate Morton
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me… — Michael Pollan

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