Inspirational Gardening Quotes

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

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.

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.

Garden as though you will live forever.

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.

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.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

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

I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

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.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

We must cultivate our own garden.

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

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

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

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.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

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

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

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

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.