Gardening Quotes And Sayings

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“Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path”
– Jean Anouilh

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn”
– B. C. Forbes

“What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies?”
– Roy Rogers

“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies”
– Gertrude Jekyll

“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”
– Luther Burbank

“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”
– David Hobson

“A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy”
– Luis Barragan

“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”
– George Cadbury

“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway”
– Michael Pollan

“When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us”
– Robert Smithson

“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it”
– Charles Dudley Warner

“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love”
– Luther Burbank

“I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation”
– Phyllis Theroux

“Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot”
– Dixie Lee Ray

“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

“A weed is but an unloved flower.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“However many years she lived, Mary always felt that ‘she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow’.”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true.”
– Abraham Cowley

“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.”
– Vera Nazarian

“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”
– Beatrix Potter

“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”
– Claude Monet

“It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth, to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season.”
– Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.”
– Horace Walpole

“Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.

–The Fruit Hunters”
– Thomas Jefferson

“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.”
– Ruth Stout

“A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space — a place not just set apart but reverberant — and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.”
– Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education

“Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn’t necessarily expect to witness.”
– Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education

“A garden always has a point.”
– Elizabeth Hoyt

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