Gardening Quotes

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.
Elizabeth Murray

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 us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in

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

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

Don't grumble that roses have thorns, be thankful that thorns have roses

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures

Making simple matters complex or complex matters simple are both bad gardening techniques
Michael P

To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.
Eleanor Perenyi

Reading is good but the garden is the best teacher.
Christine Allison

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

A man should never plant a garden larger than his wife can take care of.
T.H. Everett

Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.
Jerry Baker

A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized and the yield is greatest.
Jeff Cox

The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination.
Thomas D. Church

All gardeners live in beautiful places, because they make them so.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.
H. Fred Ale







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