Gardening Quotes, Sayings about Gardens

The earth laughs in flowers.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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By plucking her petals, You do not gather the beauty of the flower.
– Rabindranath Tagore

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Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
– Sir Walter Scott

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A gardener is a person who believes in tomorrow.

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To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
– Audrey Hepburn

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Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade.
– Rudyard Kipling

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Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.
– Katrina Mayer

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God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.

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Don’t forget to stop and smell the flowers.

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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

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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

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Garden as though you will live forever.
– William Kent

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Gardening is the work of a lifetime: you never finish.
– Oscar De La Renta

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You need patience to be a good gardener. If you don’t have patience, and you stick with gardening, it will teach you patience.?
– Bill Turull Jr.

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Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.
– Robert Brault

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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

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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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A person who thinks tomatoes grow on trees has in fact never been to a garden once.

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

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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
– May Sarton

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He who plants a garden plants happiness. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, plant a garden.
– Chinese Proverb

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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
– Margaret Atwood

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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
– Zora Neale Hurston

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Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.

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We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us.
– Jenny Uglow

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There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.
– Janet Kilburn Phillips

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It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth, to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season.
– Kate Morton

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We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

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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

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A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one.
– Priyansh Shah

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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.
– Alfred Austin

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I am more myself in a garden than anywhere else on Earth.
– Doug Green

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I like gardening – it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
– Alice Sebold

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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
– Thomas Jefferson

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The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
– Michael Pollan

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Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.
– Elizabeth Murray

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
– Francis Bacon

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A weed is but an unloved flower.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Life begins the day you start a garden.
– Chinese proverb

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Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.

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Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.

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I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.
– Ruth Stout

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When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside too.
– Terri Guillemets

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Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.
– Allan Armitage

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Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration.
– Lou Erickson

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When you increase the number of gardens, you increase the number of heavens too!
– Mehmet Murat ildan

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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
– Carl Linnaeus

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The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
– Michael Pollan

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What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
– Claude Monet

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I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.
– Robert Brault

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Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
– Alfred Austin

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All gardeners know better than other gardeners.
– Chinese Proverb

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A garden always gives back more than it receives.
– Mara Beamish

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
– Alice Morse Earle

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Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
– Thomas Jefferson

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Gardening is a humbling experience.
– Martha Stewart

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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
– Francis Bacon

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The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
– Gertrude Jekyll

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We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
– Beverley Nichols

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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
– Charles Dudley Warner

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Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
– Chinese Proverb

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