Gardening Quotes | Quotes about Gardening

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  • Gardening Quote #1

    A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

    Dogen

  • Gardening Quote #2

    A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

    Roberto Burle Marx
  • Gardening Quote #3

    A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

    Gertrude Jekyll
  • Gardening Quote #4

    A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

    Luis Barragan
  • Gardening Quote #5

    A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

    Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • Gardening Quote #6

    A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

    Kage Baker
  • Gardening Quote #7

    A good garden may have some weeds.

    Thomas Fuller
  • Gardening Quote #8

    A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

    Michael Pollan
  • Gardening Quote #9

    A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

    D. Elton Trueblood
  • Gardening Quote #10

    A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

    Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • Gardening Quote #11

    A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

    Gertrude Stein
  • Gardening Quote #12

    A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

    Doug Larson
  • Gardening Quote #13

    A weed is but an unloved flower.

    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Gardening Quote #14

    All gardening is landscape painting.

    William Kent
  • Gardening Quote #15

    And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

    Khalil Gibran
  • Gardening Quote #16

    At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

    Jennifer Saunders
  • Gardening Quote #17

    Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

    Sitting Bull
  • Gardening Quote #18

    But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

    George Cadbury
  • Gardening Quote #19

    By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

    Rabindranath Tagore
  • Gardening Quote #20

    Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.

    Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Gardening Quote #21

    Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.

    Diane Von Furstenberg
  • Gardening Quote #22

    Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

    David Chang
  • Gardening Quote #23

    Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

    Hillary Clinton
  • Gardening Quote #24

    Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

    Alfred de Vigny
  • Gardening Quote #25

    Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.

    Peter Zumthor
  • Gardening Quote #26

    Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

    Penelope Keith
  • Gardening Quote #27

    Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

    May Sarton
  • Gardening Quote #28

    Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them.

    Tom Irwin
  • Gardening Quote #29

    Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Gardening Quote #30

    Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

    Luther Burbank

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