Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

gardening

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. 12 sayings from William Cowper

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. 52 sayings 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 thoughts from Gertrude Jekyll

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

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

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies? 3 wisdom & wit from Roy Rogers

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

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. 6 other wisdom & wit from Alexander Smith

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

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

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

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

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

Garden as though you will live forever. 2 wisdom & wit from William Kent

All gardening is landscape painting. 2 wisdom & wit from William Kent

A good garden may have some weeds. 45 more sayings from Thomas Fuller

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 thoughts from Luther Burbank

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

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

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

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 thoughts from Liberty Hyde Bailey

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