Best Gardening Quotes
312 Gardening quotes by 235 unique authors
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Gardening is a humbling experience.
— Martha Stewart
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That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap…
— Paul Fleischman
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Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying…
— Geoff Hamilton
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We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It…
— Evelyn Underhill
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Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and…
— Vita Sackville-West
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Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends. There's never a…
— Steven Wilson
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I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.
— Martha Stewart
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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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Gardening is the best therapy in the world.
— C. Z. Guest
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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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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
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Garden as though you will live forever.
— William Kent
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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
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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
— Carl Linnaeus
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I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
— Alice Sebold
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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
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
— George Bernard Shaw
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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
— Doug Larson
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Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been…
— Andrew Weil
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Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.
— Unknown Author
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
— Claude Monet
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Flowers are happy things.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a…
— Ricky Gervais
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I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.
— Michael Fish
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I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
— Dorothy Malone
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