Garden Gardening Quotes
Collection of top 95 famous quotes about Garden Gardening
Garden Gardening Quotes & Sayings
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Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.
— Jerry Baker
The garden that is finished is dead.
— H.E. Bates
For a garden is a mistress, and gardening is a blend of all the arts, and if it is not the death of me, sooner or later, I shall be much surprised.
— Beverley Nichols
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
— Eric Morecambe
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
— Alfred Austin
To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.
— Stanley Crawford
The garden is a kind of sanctuary.
— John Berger
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
— Joseph Addison
The market is the best garden.
— George Herbert
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
— Alfred Austin
Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.
— William Howard Adams
I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.
— Robert Breault
It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.
— W.C. Sellar
Garden as though you will live forever.
— William Kent
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
— Robert Bridges
Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
— George Bernard Shaw
Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.
— Allan Armitage
Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.
— William Cowper
At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.
— Mirabel Osler
It won't be a chore, it will be a garden,' Holena said.
— Jeannie Mobley
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
— William Cowper
At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.
— Kelseyleigh Reber
May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true. — Abraham Cowley
And a few friends,
And many books, both true. — Abraham Cowley
Gardening ... demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.
— Gilles Clement
Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.
— Deborah Needleman
A garden always has a point.
— Elizabeth Hoyt
I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.
— Billy Williams
Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the case.
— Carla H. Krueger
Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.
— Russell Page
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
— Marcelene Cox
Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.
— Okakura Kakuzo
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
— Vincent Van Gogh
My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
— Ina Garten
The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
— Phyllis McGinley
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
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
— Alice Walker
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
— Claude Monet
Each of us is like seed, planted by the Good Gardener so we might grow into something majestic.
— Seth Adam Smith
I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul.
— Costa Georgiadis
To garden is a solitary act.
— Michelle Cliff
A garden is a friend you can visit any time.
— Okakura Kakuzo
The Good Gardener planted each of us here for a reason.
— Seth Adam Smith
The moment you step into a garden and begin to cultivate and prune, you become a killer.
— Andrew J. Robinson
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
— Stephen Gardiner
Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.
— Sara Maitland
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.
— Mirabel Osler
The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.
— Costa Georgiadis
A garden is made of hope.
— W.S. Merwin
There is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
— Barbara Mertz
I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!
— Barbara Damrosch
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.
— Barbara Damrosch
A good garden may have some weeds.
— Thomas Fuller
However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Spring time is nature at its best.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If I can't garden in it, then I won't wear it.
— Fennel Hudson
Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year.
— Richardson Wright
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
— Phyllis McGinley
This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds - but more than anything, this garden is filled with so much life!
— Seth Adam Smith
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
— Luis Barragan
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.
— Nick Cave
Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.
— Barbara Damrosch
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
— Gertrude Jekyll
I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.
— Miranda Richardson
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
— Francis Bacon
If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.
— Arthur Smith
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
— George Bernard Shaw
Garden design is all about concealment and surprise.
— Andrew Crofts
I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.
— Deborah Moggach
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers ... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
— Beau Bridges
Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
— Doris Day
Gardening is a humbling experience.
— Martha Stewart
I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
— Jacqueline Bisset
Shun artificial rocks like the plague.
— Henry Sherman Adams
A garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people; they determine its beauty
— Seth Adam Smith
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.
— Dixie Lee Ray
I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.
— Jamaica Kincaid
The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.
— Charlotte Smith
I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.
— Marta McDowell
Gardening is the best therapy in the world.
— C. Z. Guest
Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.
— Nora Roberts