Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade. – Rudyard Kipling
Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. – Allan Armitage
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
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas. – Elizabeth Murray
We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us. – Jenny Uglow
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
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.
Don’t forget to stop and smell the flowers.
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.
I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. – Robert Brault
All gardeners know better than other gardeners. – Chinese Proverb
A weed is but an unloved flower. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Garden as though you will live forever. – William Kent
A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one. – Priyansh Shah
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. – Michael Pollan
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
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
A person who thinks tomatoes grow on trees has in fact never been to a garden once.
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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