Gardening Quotes

She (or he!) who plants a seed beneath the sod and waits to see a plant, believes in God

Unknown

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies

Gertrude Jekyll

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends

Kozuko Okakura

Flowers are beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us

Wolfgang von Geothe

If you have a mind at peace, a heart that cannot harden, go find a door that opens wide upon a lovely garden

Unknown

Kiss of the sun for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth. You're closer to God's heart in a garden than any place else on earth

Dorothy Frances Gurney

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures

Francis Bacon

God almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures

Francis Bacon

Where but in a garden do summer hours pass so quickly

Unknown

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Cicero

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Unknown

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

Saadi

True friendship is like a rose: we don't realize its beauty until it fades.

Evelyn Loeb

The love of flowers is really the best teacher of how to grow and understand them.

Max Schling

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding.

Marc Chagall