Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject: Gardening Quotes
"A flower is an educated weed."...Luther Burbank
"More grows in the garden than the gardener sows."
..Old Spanish Proverb
"It seemed to my friend that the creation of a landscape-garden offered to the proper muse the most magnificent of opportunities. Here indeed was the fairest field for the display of the imagination, in the endless combining of forms of novel beauty."... Edgar Allen Poe
"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy."...Lope de Vega
"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."...Alexander Smith
"What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our starts the flowers of the heaven."...A.J. Balfour
"Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting." ...Wordsworth
"With landscaping, you never seem to reach a point when you feel the job is complete."...Author unknown
"Out of gardens grow fleeting flowers but lasting friendships."...Beverly Rose Hopper
"Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green."...Henry David Thoreau
"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."
...Rudyard Kipling
"I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion."...Emile Zola
"Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste."
...William Shakespeare
"Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden."
...William Shakespeare, Henry IV
"The only two herbicides we recommend are cultivation and mulching."...Organic Gardening Magazine
"Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world."...Virgil A. Kraft
"With understanding, those we love will certainly flower."...Thich Nhat Hanh
"As the gardener, such is the garden."...Hebrew proverb
"Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year."...Richardson Wright
"You know you are a hard-core gardener if you deadhead flowers in other people's garden."...Sue Careless
"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done. Whether you like it or not."...Charles Kingsley
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful: they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul."...Luther Burbank
"All art is but imitation of nature."...Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Come forth into the light of things,
Let nature be your teacher."...William Wordsworth
"A garden is a lovesome thing!"...Thomas Edward Brown
"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature."...Zeno
"Let us give nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do."...Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."
...William Cooper
"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."
...Wendell Berry
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."...Johann VonGoethe
"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart."
...Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons (1964)
"Each garden has its own surprise."...Susan Allen Toth, My Love Affair with England (1992)
"True gardeners cannot bear a glove
Between the sure touch and the tender root."
...Mary Sarton, As Does New Hampshire (1967)
"A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself."...Mary Sarton, At Seventy (1984)
"And add to these retired Leisure,
That in trim gardens take his pleasure."
...John Milton, Il Penseroso
"If the grass on the other side of the fence appears greener...it must be all the fertilizer they are using."
...Kevin Rodowicz
"Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development."...William Longgood
"Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay."...George Meredith
"I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree."
..Joyce Kilmer, "Trees"
"A friend in the garden is a treasure whose worth cannot be measured except by the heart."...Anon
"Come and visit me sometime. My flowers would like to meet you."
"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."...Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies (1928)
"Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame he roots for not being blossoms."...Buckminster Fuller
"A fool looks for dung where the cow never browsed."...Proverb from Ethiopia
"Rosemary only grows where the mistress is master."
"Plant the seeds of friendship, then watch the blessings grow!"
"If you are a gardener, you can always put 'Plant Manager' on your resume."
"Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?"
...Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)
"You may go down to the garden."
...(Peter Rabbit's mother) Beatrix Potter
"You may go into the field or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden."
...(Peter Rabbit's mother) Beatrix Potter
"My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws."...Claude Monet
"Every garden is a chore sometimes, but no real garden is nothing but a chore."...Nancy Grasby
"Gardens cannot be considered in detachment from the people who made them."...Derek Clifford
"The best thing that can come out of a garden are gifts for other people."...Jamie Jobb
"Plants teach us about the human condition, what it means to be fully human. Pets do the same thing."
...Judith Handelsman
"You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature."...William Rotsier
"The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose."...Heda Bejar
"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."
..Arabian Proverb
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."...John Keats
"You don't have to garden just for yourself. You have to share it."...Augusta Carter
"I live in the garden; I just sleep in the house."...Jim Long
"More in a garden grows than what the gardener sows."...Spanish Proverb
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."...Aristotle
"Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand."...Mother Teresa
"Like people, plants respond to extra attention."
...H. Peter Loewer
"Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child."...Barbara Damrosch
"There is a garden in every childhood, and enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again."...Elizabeth Lawrence
"Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration."...Lou Erictson
"Friendship is a sheltering tree."...Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness."...Lois L. Kaufman
"The earth is as wonderful as we are willing to make it. It's about choices."
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. Mrs C.W. Earle
It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun. - Henry Ward Beecher
Former British Prime Minister Sir Benjamin Disraeli said, “How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.”
Emily Bronte
“The garden walk with weeds o’ergrown,
I love them –
How I love them all!”
"Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay." -- George Meredith
"Nature abhors a garden." Michael Pollan
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. -Dorothy Day
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
-Sir Walter Scott 1828
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