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I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.
Sep 10, 2025
The Garden Was My Delight. I grew up with gardeners and I just love gardens. I was always very much aware that gardens were important and they were for sharing.
A garden is a friend you can visit any time.
Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.
It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.
Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.
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.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.
Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are
Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.
Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.