Gardening Quotes

Gardening is cheaper than therapy, and you get tomatoes.

The garden year has no beginning and no end.

In every gardener, there is a child who believes in the seed fairy.

The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.

Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.

An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life.

Don't wear perfume in the garden unless you want to be pollinated by bees.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

Weeds are nature’s graffiti.

In the garden, beauty is a byproduct. The main business is sex and death.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener.

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

In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

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

Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration.

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.

The garden is a mirror of the heart.

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

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.

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

Garden as though you will live forever.

To create a garden is to search for a better world. In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided by a vision of paradise.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

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

To plant a garden is to dream of tomorrow.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Gardening is the art of growing flowers and leaves, while weeds take care of themselves.

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling as gathering vegetables one has grown.

When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.

When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden.

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors.

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.

The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.

The hum of bess is the voice of the garden.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

Hope is one of the essential tools of a farmer or gardener.

Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world.

In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant act you can do, especially in the city.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies.

Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?

A garden is not made in a year; indeed, it is never made in the sense of finality. It grows, and with the labors of love should go on growing.

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