Garden Quotes

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden.

Abraham Cowley,

Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

F. Frankfort Moore

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

No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden.

Hugh Johnson

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

Mrs. C.W. Earle

The garden is the poor man's apothecary.

Unkonown

How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.

Benjamin Disraeli

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

Robert Bridges

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees

Anne Raver

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

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful

Abram L. Urban

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Orson Scott Card

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

G K Chesterton