Gardening Quotes


I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. David Hobson Gardening 1,489
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 Gardening 219
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 Gardening 165
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. Doug Larson Gardening 136
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardening 134
I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with. Suzy Bogguss Gardening 134
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. Alfred Austin Gardening 102
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. Walt Disney Gardening 96
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. Alice Walker Gardening 96
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. Francis Bacon Gardening 95
I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. Phyllis Diller Gardening 94
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. Luis Barragan Gardening 94
My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. Juliet Mills Gardening 93
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. Zora Neale Hurston Gardening 92
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. George Bernard Shaw Gardening 91
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero Gardening 89
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. Luther Burbank Gardening 89
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. George Eliot Gardening 88
To dwell is to garden. Martin Heidegger Gardening 87
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 Gardening 87
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? Francis Cabot Lowell Gardening 86
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. Dixie Lee Ray Gardening 85
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardening 83
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path. Jean Anouilh Gardening 83
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. Luther Burbank Gardening 80
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. Charles Dudley Warner Gardening 80
If a tree dies, plant another in its place. Carolus Linnaeus Gardening 78
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. John Harrison Gardening 76
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening. Ken Thompson Gardening 76
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. Robert Smithson Gardening 75
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. Thomas Moore Gardening 75
I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality. Adam Ant Gardening 73
The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London. Jeremy Northam Gardening 72
But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life. George Cadbury Gardening 70
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. Penelope Keith Gardening 69
Gardening is not a rational act. Margaret Atwood Gardening 68
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson Gardening 67
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero Gardening 66
I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. Dorothy Malone Gardening 65
Use plants to bring life. Douglas Wilson Gardening 63
Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. Clive Anderson Gardening 62
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. Voltaire Gardening 61
I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good. Michael Fish Gardening 61
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. B. C. Forbes Gardening 61
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. Rudyard Kipling Gardening 60
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. Gertrude Jekyll Gardening 59
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. Sean Bean Gardening 58
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors. Oscar de la Renta Gardening 58
I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock. Carolyn Murphy Gardening 56
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 Gardening 54

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