Gardening Quotes

A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul
Sadi

It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree
Clare Leighton

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's
Mary Cantwell

God gave us memories that we may have roses in December
J. M. Barrie

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden
Reginald Farrer

Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace

An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life.
Cora Lea Bell

Gardening, like sex and food, lies somewhere between art and nature, being wholly neither but partly both.
Roger Grounds

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.
Elizabeth von Arnim

Must we always teach our children with books? Let them look at the stars and the mountains above. Let them look at the waters and the trees and flowers on Earth. Then they will begin to think, and to think is the beginning of a real education.
David Polis

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

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

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

A gardener's best tool is the knowledge from previous seasons. And it can be recorded in a $2 notebook.
Andy Tomolonis

Of all the flora and fauna on earth, it is only man that desires or needs rules.
Thomas Clothier

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.
Issa

In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought....
Sophie Scholl

Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.

I don't know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice.
Roland A Beowne

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
Kozuko Okakura







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