84 private quotes tagged gardening

“Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.”— Thomas Moore

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

“A good garden may have some weeds.”— Thomas Fuller

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”— George Eliot

“We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.”— Voltaire

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.”— Rudyard Kipling

“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”— Francis Bacon

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.”— George Cadbury

“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.”— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“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

“The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.”— Stephen Gardiner

“I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.”— Walt Disney

“Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.”— Andrew Weil

“He plants trees to benefit another generation.”— Caecilius Statius

“I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.”— Martha Smith

“It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.”— Orison Swett Marden

“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”— Alice Walker

“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”— Doug Larson

“I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.”— Penelope Keith

“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.”— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”— Luther Burbank

“I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.”— Gates McFadden