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

gardening

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. 5 wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Liberty Hyde Bailey

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

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

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

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. 6 more wisdom & wit from Luther Burbank

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

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

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

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path. 14 sayings 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 sayings from Martin Heidegger

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 thoughts from Alexander Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

All gardening is landscape painting. 2 other quotes from William Kent

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