Circles Quote by Francis Cabot Lowell

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. One…

— Francis Cabot

Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at the moment…

— Jamaica Kincaid

The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and…

— Susan Hill

It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.

— Costa Georgiadis

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something…

— Vita Sackville-West

All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.

— Allen Lacy

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

— Ken Thompson

Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.

— Karel Capek

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

— Nora Roberts

“A garden is like the self. It has so many layers and winding paths, real or imagined, that it can never be known, completely,…

— Anne Raver

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul.…

— William Lawson

The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he…

— Freya Stark