Garden Quote by Jeff Cox

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

— Jonathan Haidt

“The sight of other people's prosperity seems to kill their appreciation and the enjoyment of their possessions. To be happy, we must approve of…

— Orison Swett Marden

There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the…

— Dennis Kimbro

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone…

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

Those people who spend their time working on things they love are usually the ones enjoying life the most. They are also the ones…

— Richard Branson

For when men know they are working on what belongs to them, they work with far greater eagerness and diligence. Nay, in a word,…

— Pope Leo XIII

“The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.”

— Sir Ken Robinson

If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has…

— David Hume

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die.

— Hugh B. Brown

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much…

— Mary Wortley Montagu