Best Gardening Wisdom
312 Gardening quotes by 235 unique authors
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our…
— Jack Kornfield
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I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever…
— Ricky Gervais
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
— Sigmund Freud
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A good garden may have some weeds.
— Thomas Fuller
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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
— Khalil Gibran
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
— William Cowper
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
— Walt Disney
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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
— Dogen
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
— George Eliot
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
— Ralph Fiennes
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
— B. C. Forbes
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One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
— Robert Fortune
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To dwell is to garden.
— Martin Heidegger
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I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
— Thomas Jefferson
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A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
— Gertrude Jekyll
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The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
— Gertrude Jekyll
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The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.
— Elton John
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I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what…
— Elton John
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I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just…
— Penelope Keith
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All gardening is landscape painting.
— William Kent
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