Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

gardening

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. 12 more wisdom & wit from William Cowper

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies? 3 other quotes from Roy Rogers

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. 3 other quotes from Gertrude Jekyll

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. 52 quotes from George Eliot

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust. 3 wisdom & wit from Gertrude Jekyll

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. 39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. 12 other quotes from Rudyard Kipling

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. 6 thoughts from Alexander Smith

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. 23 quotes from Walt Disney

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. 25 other wisdom & wit from Orison Swett Marden

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. 12 sayings from Zora Neale Hurston

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. 13 more wisdom & wit from Stephen Gardiner

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. 67 quotes from Francis Bacon

A good garden may have some weeds. 45 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Fuller

Garden as though you will live forever. 2 quotes from William Kent

All gardening is landscape painting. 2 more views from William Kent

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. 6 other quotes from Luther Burbank

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. 5 more quotes from Luis Barragan

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. 6 sayings from Liberty Hyde Bailey

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. 6 other thoughts from Luther Burbank

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. 6 quotes from Luther Burbank

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one. 5 thoughts from Luis Barragan

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. 3 quotes from Alfred Austin

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. 135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. 10 sayings from B. C. Forbes

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path. 14 other thoughts from Jean Anouilh

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. 115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

To dwell is to garden. 6 more wisdom & wit from Martin Heidegger

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. 5 quotes from Charles Dudley Warner