Delight Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold

“Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

— May Sarton

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

— Rumer Godden

Nature abhors a garden.

— Michael Pollan

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

— Anonymous

In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it

— Marcus Buckingham

A garden always has a point.

— Elizabeth Hoyt

Values are only measured by the importance it has to you.

— Anonymous

How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and…

— Ernest Henry Wilson

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

— Phyllis McGinley

The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is.

— Nikki Yanofsky

“A garden is never finished. In that sense it is like the human world and all human undertakings.”

— Karel Čapek