Gardening Quotes
162 quotes
"My brain is divided into two butterflies, and both are in love with your rose-shaped heart. If you've got the garden, I've got my whole life."
"My hands will get dirty holding your rose-shaped heart, because love is like gardening—it’s earthy and takes work to keep it alive."
"A weed is but an unloved flower."
"A flowing flurry of flowers fell to the floor when I fell in love, as if my heart were a garden that gushed forth and flooded her being with the fragrance of romance."
"I was gardening when I saw this snail/slug thing disguised as a leaf. Ah, isn't fall a wonderful time to slowly fall in love?"
"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."
"Yellow flowers are like physical manifestations of sunlight. I’m growing a garden of sunglasses just to help save eyesight and make the world a little bit cooler."
"The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte."
"Sure, I had hopes and dreams before working at @McDonalds. I used to want to be a dancer and a gardener and grow movement on a farm in Iowa."
"I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one."
"He plants trees to benefit another generation."
"Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get."
"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."
"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."
"I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess."
"It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves."
"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."
"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."
"It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest."
"In search of my mother's garden, I found my own."
"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees."
"Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade."
"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust."
"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."
"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."
"Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors."
"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
"My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden."
"A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself."
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."
"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."
"Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow."
"What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?"
"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
"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."
"To dwell is to garden."
"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."
"All gardening is landscape painting."
"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."
"I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds."
"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed."
"Gardening is not a rational act."
"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."
"I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation."
"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."
"The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love."
"Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path."
"The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden."
"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway."
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