Arbitrary Quote by Liberty Hyde Bailey

Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the…

— Richardson Wright

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in…

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

I have learnt that gardens are like happiness: you cannot pursue them as an absolute thing or moment.

— Monty Don

“To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a…

— Karel Capek

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the…

— Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

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

Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.

— Barbara Damrosch

What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out.…

— Helen Humphreys

Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly…

— Geoff Hamilton

Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your…

— Will Durant

Learn to cultivate your own garden.

— Voltaire