Top gardening Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of gardening quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Sitting Bull
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
- Sitting Bull
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Image of William Blake
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake
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Image of Pablo Neruda
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
- Pablo Neruda
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Image of Margaret Atwood
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
- Margaret Atwood
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Image of Alfred Austin
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.
- Alfred Austin
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Image of George Bernard Shaw
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Image of A. A. Milne
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
- A. A. Milne
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Image of George Eliot
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
- George Eliot
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Image of Doug Larson
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
- Doug Larson
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Image of Ramakrishna
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
- Ramakrishna
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Image of Sigmund Freud
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
- Sigmund Freud
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Gertrude Jekyll
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
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Image of B. C. Forbes
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
- B. C. Forbes
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Image of Liberty Hyde Bailey
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
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Image of Dogen
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
- Dogen
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Image of May Sarton
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
- May Sarton
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Image of Alice Walker
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
- Alice Walker
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Image of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Image of William Wordsworth
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
- William Wordsworth
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Image of D. H. Lawrence
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
- D. H. Lawrence
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Image of Francis Bacon
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
- Francis Bacon
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Image of Walt Disney
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
- Walt Disney
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Image of Douglas Adams
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
- Douglas Adams
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Image of Rabindranath Tagore
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Image of Voltaire
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.
- Voltaire
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Image of Wendell Berry
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
- Wendell Berry
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Image of Khalil Gibran
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
- Khalil Gibran
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Image of Caecilius Statius
He plants trees to benefit another generation.
- Caecilius Statius
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Image of H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Image of Rudyard Kipling
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
- Rudyard Kipling
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Image of Anne Lamott
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
- Anne Lamott
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Image of Martin Heidegger
To dwell is to garden.
- Martin Heidegger
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Image of Luis Barragan
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
- Luis Barragan
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Image of Thomas Fuller
A good garden may have some weeds.
- Thomas Fuller
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Image of Michael Pollan
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
- Michael Pollan
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Image of Alice Sebold
I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
- Alice Sebold
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Image of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A weed is but an unloved flower.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Image of Daniel Webster
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
- Daniel Webster
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Oscar de la Renta
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
- Oscar de la Renta
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Image of William Kent
Garden as though you will live forever.
- William Kent
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Image of Bootsy Collins
You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.
- Bootsy Collins
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Image of Eric Morecambe
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.
- Eric Morecambe
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Image of Thomas Moore
From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
- Thomas Moore
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Image of Zora Neale Hurston
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
- Zora Neale Hurston
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Image of Jean Anouilh
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
- Jean Anouilh
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Image of D. Elton Trueblood
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
- D. Elton Trueblood
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