Gardening Quotes And Sayings

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“Gardens… should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.”
– H. E. Bates

“We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.”
– Evelyn Underhill

“One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.”
– W.E. Johns

“My garden will never make me famous, I’m a horticultural ignoramus.”
– Ogden Nash

“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust

“The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.”
– John Erskine

“If I’m ever reborn, I want to be a gardener – there’s too much to do for one lifetime!”
– Karl Foerster

“Gardening is something you learn by doing – and by making mistakes, like cooking, gardening is a constant process of experimentation, repeating the successes and throwing out the failures.”
– Carol Stocker

“Tickle the earth with a hoe, it will laugh a harvest.”
– Mary Cantell

“An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life.”
– Cora Lea Bell

“Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.”
– The Koran

“Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.”
– Anon

“We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.”
– Anon

“A flower is an educated weed.”
– Luther Burbank

“A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.”
– Sara Stein

“The philosopher who said that work well done never needs doing over, never weeded a garden.”
– Ray D. Everson

“Nature abhors a garden.”
– Michael Pollan

“A man of words and not deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.”
– Nursery rhyme

“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden, And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, kind words and kind deeds.”
– Longfellow

“What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?”
– Thomas Henry Huxley

“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”
– James Russell Lowell

“I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.”
– Helena Rutherfurd Ely

“Beauty is a by-product, …. The main business of gardens is sex and death”
– Sam Llewellyn

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