Gardening Quotes

When words escape, flowers speak.
Bruce W. Currie

Life is like a rose . . . More exquisite and precious, When shared with others.
Jane Oechsle Lauer

Bread feeds the body indeed, but the flowers also feed the soul.
The Koran

Bloom where you are planted!
Mary Engelbert

I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.
Sara Stein

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
A Whitney Brown

The best things that can come out of the garden are gifts for other people.
Jamie Jobb

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.

I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.
Celia Thaxter

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

If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.
Louise Beebe Wilder

It used to be thought that our love of plants was an impractical but pure passion. But now, in the age of environmental crisis, we're discovering that gardening is essential to human life.
Jacqueline Heriteau

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach that which you can never learn from masters.
Saint Bernard

He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.
Celia Thaxter

If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.
Davies Gilbert

Flowers grow in inches, but are destroyed by feet







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