84 private quotes tagged gardening

“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.” — Gertrude Jekyll

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“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.” — Alfred Austin

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“Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.” — Zora Neale Hurston

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“What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?” — Roy Rogers

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“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.” — B. C. Forbes

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“To dwell is to garden.” — Martin Heidegger

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“All gardening is landscape painting.” — William Kent

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“Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.” — Marcelene Cox

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“How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.” — Alexander Smith

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“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.” — Luther Burbank

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“Gardening is not a rational act.” — Margaret Atwood

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“Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.” — May Sarton

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“I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.” — Phyllis Theroux

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“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.” — Luther Burbank

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“Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.” — Jean Anouilh

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“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.” — Michael Pollan

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“Use plants to bring life.” — Douglas Wilson

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

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“When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.” — Robert Smithson

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“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey

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“A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.” — Luis Barragan

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“I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.” — Suzy Bogguss

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“Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.” — Dixie Lee Ray

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“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.” — Carolus Linnaeus

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“Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.” — Dogen Zenji

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