Gardening Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Gardening

Gardening Quotes & Sayings

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Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward. — Seth Adam Smith

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. — Abraham Lincoln

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

For fun and for life, through life's changes, look to be inspired, to stay gardening. — Chris Eirschele

The market is the best garden. — George Herbert

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. — B.C. Forbes

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it. — Bootsy Collins

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'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive. — Simon Baker

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good. — Michael Fish

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing. — J. B. Smoove

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science. — Ken Thompson

I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly. — Allen Lacy

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. — Hayley Mills

Garden as though you will live forever. — William Kent

Where have all the flowers of old Singapore gone? Gone, one would imagine, with the old folks and homes — Thien

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. — Robert Bridges

They suggested E-meters, Gestalt, eating only high-mineral foods that had been planted during a full moon. — Emma Cline

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ... — Vita Sackville-West

As I leave the garden
I take with me a renewed view,
And a quiet soul. — Jessica Coupe

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. — William Cowper

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge. — Vita Sackville-West

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! — Sitting Bull

Use plants to bring life. — Douglas Wilson

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan

It won't be a chore, it will be a garden,' Holena said. — Jeannie Mobley

People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little. — Anna Bartlett Warner

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. — Alexander Smith

At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds. — Kelseyleigh Reber

There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living. — Robert Muller

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 brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Plants want to grow; they are on your side as long as you are reasonably sensible. — Anne Wareham

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. — Dorothy Malone

Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year. — Richardson Wright

He plants trees to benefit another generation. — Caecilius Statius

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading. — Mary Wortley Montagu

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

As far as Frances was concerned, gardening was simply open-air housework. — Sarah Waters

A good garden may have some weeds. — Thomas Fuller

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable. — Mary McCarthy

Home-grown pears are best eaten in the bath - they're so juicy, it's the easiest way to stay clean! — Mitchell Beazley

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

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block. — Emo Philips

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. — Hilarie Burton

Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child. — Barbara Damrosch

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening. — Martha Stewart

Quite honestly, most of us don't live in a world with perfect loam. — Mark Whitelaw

What was one to do, thought Adela, with someone who didn't talk gardening or dogs - those standbys of rural conversation. — Agatha Christie

I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not go nude? — Eva Mendes

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. — Alice Sebold

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

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking. — Susan Hampshire

Gardeners are the ultimate mixologists. — Amy Stewart

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden. — Miranda Richardson

The non-hybrids/heirlooms I grew equaled or out-yielded the hybrids in general, with far superior flavors and variety. — Craig Lehoullier

There is a tale ... It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow. — Cameron Dokey

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. — Ralph Fiennes

A gardin is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death — Tiffany Baker

I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered. — Kaaron Warren

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

As an angler and a gardener, I cherish each drop of rain that falls. — Fennel Hudson

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

And I'm leaving you that plant," he lamented. "You are good with plants, aren't you?"
Great, I lied. (I could make the Congo wither and die...) — Wilton Barnhardt

The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us. — F.T. McKinstry

Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't. — Kim Wilde

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon

I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along. — Georgann Low

By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors. — S. Kelley Harrell

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness. — Michael Pollan

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot? — Mike Krieger

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt. — Texas Bix Bender

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

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. — Charles Saatchi

Gardening always has been an art, essentially. — Robert Irwin

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. — Helen Mirren

In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind. — Allen Lacy

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. — May Sarton

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. — Luis Barragan

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin. — Jan Struther

If you want to have a balanced garden, feed the soil and build the ecosystem. — Cindy Conner

I tend the flowers of my mind
Watering our memories as they bloom — Richard L. Ratliff

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting. — Claude Monet

There is nothing like a garden to rest the soul. — Barbara Mertz

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive. — Henry Mitchell

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe. — Thomas Berry

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

We may owe more than we are aware of to the witch. — D.J. Jacobs

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. — Martha Smith

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there. — Lars Von Trier

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant. — Andy Couturier

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening. — Steven Cojocaru