The earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
By plucking her petals, You do not gather the beauty of the flower. – Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden. – Sir Walter Scott
A gardener is a person who believes in tomorrow.
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. – Audrey Hepburn
Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade. – Rudyard Kipling
Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time. – Katrina Mayer
God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.
Don’t forget to stop and smell the flowers.
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
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
Garden as though you will live forever. – William Kent
Gardening is the work of a lifetime: you never finish. – Oscar De La Renta
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.
Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. – Robert Brault
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
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
A person who thinks tomatoes grow on trees has in fact never been to a garden once.
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. – Abraham Lincoln
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
He who plants a garden plants happiness. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, plant a garden. – Chinese Proverb
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. – Margaret Atwood
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. – Zora Neale Hurston
Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.
We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us. – Jenny Uglow
There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. – Janet Kilburn Phillips
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
We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.
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
A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one. – Priyansh Shah
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
I am more myself in a garden than anywhere else on Earth. – Doug Green
I like gardening – it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. – Alice Sebold
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. – Thomas Jefferson
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
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas. – Elizabeth Murray
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. – Francis Bacon
A weed is but an unloved flower. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. – George Bernard Shaw
Life begins the day you start a garden. – Chinese proverb
Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.
Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. – Ruth Stout
When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside too. – Terri Guillemets
Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. – Allan Armitage
Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration. – Lou Erickson
When you increase the number of gardens, you increase the number of heavens too! – Mehmet Murat ildan
If a tree dies, plant another in its place. – Carl Linnaeus
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. – Michael Pollan
What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. – Claude Monet
I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. – Robert Brault
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. – Alfred Austin
All gardeners know better than other gardeners. – Chinese Proverb
A garden always gives back more than it receives. – Mara Beamish
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. – Alice Morse Earle
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. – Thomas Jefferson
Gardening is a humbling experience. – Martha Stewart
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. – Francis Bacon
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. – Gertrude Jekyll
We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace. – Beverley Nichols
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. – Charles Dudley Warner
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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