Best Gardening Quotations

312 Gardening quotes by 235 unique authors

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight. — Deborah Needleman
I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about… — Barbara Damrosch
One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all gardeners get by… — Margery Fish
I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to… — Allen Lacy
Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. — Allan Armitage
There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at heart. Gardening simply… — Allan Armitage
Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want… — Unknown Author
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year. — Richardson Wright
Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child. — Barbara Damrosch
Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow. — Diane Dreher
I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul. — Costa Georgiadis
The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes. — Costa Georgiadis
Gardening is about communication, relationships, routines and life-enrichment. Gardens are places that connect us to the seasons and the life cycle. They're a vehicle for… — Costa Georgiadis
Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely… — Allen Lacy
The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. — Larry Dossey
Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that… — Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
Liberal gardeners are people who feel that, through gardening, we can alleviate our sense of alienation from nature; and that, through good gardening, we can… — Deborah Needleman
Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many… — Joshua Reynolds
If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary… — Friedrich Schiller
My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also… — Juliet Mills
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far… — Francis Cabot Lowell
When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf… — Peter Lynch
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than… — Evagrius Ponticus

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