Gardening Quotes And Sayings

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“Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.”
– S. Kelley Harrell

“The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.”
– Eliot Coleman

“I plant daffodil bulbs about eight inches deep. As I mentioned before, I don’t use a ruler. As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it’s easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise.”
– Cassandra Danz

“My first vegetable garden was in a hard-packed dirt driveway in Boulder, Colorado. I was living in a basement apartment there, having jumped at the chance to come out West with a friend in his Volkswagen Bug, fleeing college and inner-city Philadelphia. I was twenty, hungry for experience, and fully intending to be a ski bum in my new life. But it didn’t turn out that way.”
– Jane Shellenberger

“After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made.”
– Stephen M. Irwin

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

“Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the ‘other side’ for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing.”
– James Shirley Hibberd

“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration.”
– Lou Erickson

“Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.”
– Sir Walter Scott

“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“A garden is a symbol of man’s arrogance, perverting nature to human ends …”
– Tim Smit

“There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.”
– John Ruskin

“Who has learned to garden who did not at the same time learn to be patient?”
– H.L.V. Fletcher

“To dig one’s own spade into one’s own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?”
– John Beverley Nichols

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

“Though an old man, I am but a young gardener.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

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

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.”
– Vita Sackville-West

“The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.”
– Vita Sackville-West

“Won’t you come into the garden, I would like my roses to see you.”
– Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.”
– Janet Kilburn Phillips

“Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.”
– Francis Bacon

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
– Claude Monet

“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”
– May Sarton

“A garden is never so good as it will be next year”
– Thomas Cooper

“The garden that is finished is dead.”
– H. E. Bates

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