I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It’s all how you look at it.
—Unknown
I believe that the days to come already feel the wonder of the days that have passed and will permit that wonder to endure and increase. If this be blind faith, then every gardener has it, or he would never plant a seed.
—Indian Proverb
Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
—Unknown
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing:—“Oh, how beautiful!” and sitting in the shade.
—Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) British Children’s Books Writer, Short story, Novelist, Poet, Journalist
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener’s own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
—Wendell Berry (b.1934) American Poet, Novelist, Environmentalist
The best fertilizer is the gardener’s shadow.
—Unknown
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
—James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, someone always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest, a continued one thro’ the year. Under a total want of demand except for our family table. I am still devoted to the garden. But tho’ an old man, I am but a young gardener.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
—Robert Bridges (1844–1930) English Poet, Critic
I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.
—Celia Thaxter (1835–94) American Poet, Writer
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
—Phyllis McGinley (1905–78) American Children’s Books Writer, Poet, Writer of Children’s Books
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt
—Margaret Atwood (b.1939) Canadian Writer, Poet, Critic
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
—Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist
Plant carrots in January and you’ll never have to eat carrots.
—Indian Proverb
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
One who plants a garden, plants happiness
—Unknown
If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
—Vincent van Gogh (1853–90) Dutch Painter
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
—Unknown
All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.
—Helen Hayes (1900–93) American Actress, Philanthropist
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (1821–81) Swiss Moral Philosopher, Poet, Critic
Flowers grow in inches, but are destroyed by feet
—Unknown
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps.
—Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) American Teacher, Writer, Philosopher
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
—The Holy Quran Sacred Scripture of Islam
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.
—Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007) American Painter Printmaker
The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
As Rosemary is to the spirit, so Lavender is to the soul
—Indian Proverb
A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow
—Unknown
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