Gardening Quotes
I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.
Reginald Farrer
It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.
W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman,
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
Unknown
Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart
Karel
The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.
Dorothy Frances Gurney
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.
Julie Moir Messervy:
Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.
Karel Capek
The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
Phyllis McGinley
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in
Unknown
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses
Abraham Lincoln
Flowers are beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us
Wolfgang von Geothe
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
