Best Gardening Quotes

I love decorating my home. I

I love decorating my home. I’m a gardener too, so that’s usually something I have to play catch up with.

Suzy Bogguss

Working with plants, trees, fences and

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Dogen Zenji

The garden, by design, is concerned

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

Stephen Gardiner

Many talk about a guest worker

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

Gary Miller

Gardens are not made by singing

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling

What’s a butterfly garden without

What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies?

Roy Rogers

I don’t like formal gardens

I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Walt Disney

Show me your garden and I

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Alfred Austin

All gardening is landscape painting.

All gardening is landscape painting.

William Kent

The space and light up there

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

Jeremy Northam

Well tended garden is better than

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

Dixie Lee Ray

It is only the farmer who

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

B. C. Forbes

If you build up the soil

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

John Harrison

A good garden may have some

A good garden may have some weeds.

Thomas Fuller

Somebody informed me recently that the

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Some men like to make a

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Jean Anouilh

In search of my mother’s

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

Alice Walker

A man has made at least

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

D. Elton Trueblood

I have to keep up with

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren’t really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

Ken Thompson
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