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In this post we share some favorite quotes about gardening.
Quotes
| Frances Hodgson Burnett: “However many years she lived, Mary always felt that ‘she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow’.” |
| Claude Monet: “My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece” |
| Wendell Berry: “Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.” |
| Kate Morton: “It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth, to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season.” |
| Alfred Austin: “The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.” |
| May Sarton: “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.” |
| Zora Neale Hurston: “Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.” |
| Alfred Austin: “There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.” |
| Minnie Aumonier: “When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.” |
| Alice Sebold: “I like gardening—it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.” |
| Gertrude Jekyll ― “A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero ― “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” |
| Mahatma Gandhi: “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” |
| David Hobson: “I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.” |
| Janet Kilburn Phillips: “There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.” |
| Greek proverb: A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. |
| Thomas Moore: “The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided.” |
| Edwin Curran: “Flowers are the music of the ground from earth’s lips spoken without sound.” |
| Myron Kaufmann: “Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.” |
| Karel Capek: “Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It’s an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.” |
| Elizabeth Lawrence: “There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.” |
| Oscar de la Renta: “Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.” |
| Caecilius Statius: “He plants trees to benefit another generation.” |
| Mary Cantwell: “Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors.” |
| Chinese proverb: Life begins the day you start a garden. |
| May Sarton:“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.” |
| Alfred Austin: “Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.” |
| Saadi: “A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul.” |
| James Joyce: “The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.” |
| Lady Bird Johnson: “Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.” |
| Gertrude Jekyll: “The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.” |
| James Douglas: “It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.” |
| Robert Louis Stevenson: “It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. “ |
| Alexander Smith: “How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. “ |
| Phyllis Theroux: “I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.” |
| Hanna Rion: “The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.” |
| Marcelene Cox: “Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ” |
| Michael P. Garofalo: “Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise. ” |
| Elizabeth Lawrence: “The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.” |
| W.E. Johns: “One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ” |
| David Hobson: “I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.” |
| May Sarton: “Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything — except itself. ” |
| Wendell Berry: “The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. ” |
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