Gardening Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“I’ve got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.”
– Jasper Fforde

“All gardening is landscape painting,’ said Alexander Pope.”
– Rebecca Solnit

“There is a tale…It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.”
– Cameron Dokey

“Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.”
– Michael Pollan

“The plants we’ve chosen will collect and cycle Earth’s minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife.”
– Toby Hemenway

“It won’t be a chore, it will be a garden,’ Holena said.”
– Jeannie Mobley

“Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.”
– Eudora Welty

“Quite honestly, most of us don’t live in a world with perfect loam.”
– Mark Whitelaw

“Novels and gardens,” she says. “I like to move from plot to plot.”
– Bill Richardson

“By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.”
– S. Kelley Harrell

“Our most important job as vegetable gardeners is to feed and sustain soil life, often called the soil food web, beginning with the microbes. If we do this, our plants will thrive, we’ll grow nutritious, healthy food, and our soil conditions will get better each year. This is what is meant by the adage “Feed the soil not the plants.”
– Jane Shellenberger

“To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.”
– Stanley Crawford

“Plants want to grow; they are on your side as long as you are reasonably sensible.”
– Anne Wareham

“Life already has so many boundaries and pressures – why add more in the garden?”
– Felder Rushing

“Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.”
– Alfred Austin

“I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.”
– Henry Bellamann

“The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear- with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.”
– William Howard Adams

“Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.”
– William Howard Adams

“The market is the best garden.”
– George Herbert

“Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be highly satisfying.”
– David Wheeler

“One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people’s yards.”
– Thalassa Cruso

“You’re not a gardener, are you? So perhaps you don’t know that once a garden is established, much of good gardening is about removal rather than planting, honing what you have to produce a pleasing effect, sacrificing the particular for the good of the whole. Gardening is a creative pastime, but the result is always a work in progress; unlike a painting or a piece of music a garden is never fixed in time. (“In The Garden”)”
– Rosalie Parker

“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens — a ruin, sometimes even a dead tree — the act of leaving parts of the garden untended, and calling attention to its margins, seems to undermine any pretense to perfect power or wisdom on the part of the gardener. The margins of our gardens can be tropes too, but figures of irony rather than transcendence — antidotes, in fact, to our hubris. It may be in the margins of our gardens that we can discover fresh ways to bring our aesthetics and our ethics about the land into some meaningful alignment.”
– Michael Pollan

“No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood and stone that houses us and that many believe conceals the great Secret Temple from prying eyes, somewhere in its heart of hearts, is but a decoy for the masses who need this simple concrete limited thing in their lives. The real Temple is the whole world, and there is nothing as divinely blessed as a blooming growing garden.”
– Vera Nazarian

“It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in ‘em,” said Captain Jim. “When I ponder on them seeds I don’t find it nowise hard to believe that we’ve got souls that’ll live in other worlds. You couldn’t hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn’t seen the miracle, could you?”
– L.M. Montgomery

“I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden below would be better off. I know that God values them no less than I do. So when I plant in spring I also hope to taste of God in fruit of summer sun and sight of feathered friends.”
– Vigen Guroian

“Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: ‘For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.’ … he… felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness… like a gush of warm water… All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil.”
– J.M. Coetzee

“It didn’t occur to me that… that gardening, like music, could demand practice, patience, a willingness to make mistakes.”
– Amy Stewert

“He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard and forget her children. That was why.”
– J.M. Coetzee

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