Best Gardening Proverbs
312 Gardening quotes by 235 unique authors
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There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
— Ken Kesey
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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
— Rudyard Kipling
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The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled…
— Anne Lamott
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.
— Lillie Langtry
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
— Timothy Leary
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought…
— Abraham Lincoln
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If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge -…
— Christian Louboutin
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A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual,…
— Roberto Burle Marx
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
— A A Milne
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Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.
— Helen Mirren
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From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away…
— Thomas Moore
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My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out…
— Eric Morecambe
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own…
— Viggo Mortensen
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
— Pablo Neruda
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I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My…
— Jane Pauley
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
— Ramakrishna
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
— Oscar de la Renta
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an…
— May Sarton
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Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
— George Bernard Shaw
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
— Alexander Smith
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I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
— Martha Smith
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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
— Gertrude Stein
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