Inspirational Gardening Quotes
16 Inspirational Gardening quotes by 15 unique authors
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
— Alfred Austin
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
— Francis Bacon
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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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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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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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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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
— Rudyard Kipling
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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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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
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
— Abraham Lincoln
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But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like…
— Edna Ferber
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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
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Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the…
— Wendell Berry
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
— Claude Monet
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The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear…
— Joel Salatin
Who Wrote These Inspirational Gardening Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Inspirational Gardening Quotes as follows: