175 Flower Garden Quotes

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Famous Flower Garden Quotes

A garden is a friend you can visit any time. — Okakura Kakuzo

A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature. — Jeff Cox

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. — Walt Whitman

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

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. — W. E. Johns

In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind. — Patience Strong

There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow. — Thomas Campion

All gardening is landscape painting. — William Kent

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. — Alfred Austin

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot — Dixie Lee Ray

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. — Henry Ward Beecher

A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden. — Alexander Hamilton

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

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

Short Flower Garden Quotes

  • The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye. — Rudyard Kipling
  • Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. — Audrey Hepburn
  • Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. — Rumi
  • A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. — Leo Buscaglia
  • Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks. — Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love. — Bahá'u'lláh
  • The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. — Larry Dossey
  • A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year. — William F. Longgood
  • If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Top 10 Flower Garden Quotes

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. — Jorge Luis Borges

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

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine

Where flowers bloom so does hope. — Lady Bird Johnson

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism. — Sukarno

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers. — Lady Bird Johnson

And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. — Billy Graham

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. — Oscar Wilde

Flower Garden Image Quotes

Flower garden quote So plant your own gardens and decorate your soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers
So plant your own gardens and decorate your soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Beautiful Flower Garden Quotes

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect. — Mahatma Gandhi

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. - Okakura Kakuzo

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. — Okakura Kakuzo

Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty. — Kabir

Flower garden quote We enjoy life's garden. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
We enjoy life's garden. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful. — Jim Carrey

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. — James Russell Lowell

The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls. — Miguel de Cervantes

Flower garden quote Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. — Buddha

You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow. — Oscar de la Renta

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. — Saint Francis de Sales

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. — Helen Keller

Inspirational Flower Garden Quotes

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

'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes! — William Wordsworth

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seed of today. — Croft M. Pentz

Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. — Arthur Cleveland Coxe

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Rose Flower Garden Quotes

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses. — Oscar Wilde

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits. — William Carlos Williams

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Must you know that yours will be the “better” picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply be another picture? Another expression of beauty? Must a rose be “better” than an iris in order to justify it’s existence? I tell you this: you are all flowers in the Garden of the Gods. — Neale Donald Walsch

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine. — William Shakespeare

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. — William Carlos Williams

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. — John Ruskin

I know a little garden close Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy dawn to dewy night. And have one with me wandering. — William Morris

I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness. — Andrew Marvell

In friendship's fragrant garden, There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for you. Friendship's Garden If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Gardening Quotes

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. — Marcel Proust

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. — Alan Watts

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes! - Albert Hofmann

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes! — Albert Hofmann

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils. — William Wordsworth

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

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

Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks. - Charlemagne

Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks. — Charlemagne

When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world; a world where every country walk would be an adventure, where every garden would become an enchanted one. — Grace Kelly

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde

Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to. — Nachman of Breslov

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners. - William Shakespeare

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners. — William Shakespeare

Beautiful Garden Quotes

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. — John Muir

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time. — Wallace Stegner

And all this time when you could have been romping around the f*cking Garden of Eden f*cking hot girls and eating steaks and living a beautiful life you were worried about... — Duncan Trussell

Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers. — Carl Sandburg

Milan, for me, is a city of discovery. You can find some amazing gardens behind some great houses; I also love finding beautiful galleries and incredible shops, but you have to explore. And the food is amazing. — Francisco Costa

For the sake of a single rose, the gardener becomes servant to a thousand thorns. — Moroccan Proverbs

Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life. You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling. — Dan Buettner

In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone. — Lafcadio Hearn

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

Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds. — Carl Linnaeus

Spring Garden Quotes

Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship. — Julian of Norwich

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. — Rumi

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. - Anne Bradstreet

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. — Anne Bradstreet

May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin. — H. Peter Loewer

I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth? — Edward Giobbi

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. — Reginald Heber

That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it. — Winifred Mary Letts

She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart. — Elizabeth von Arnim

All things seem possible in May. — Edwin Way Teale

A change of season calls for a change of scent that is both energizing and refreshing. — Hannah Bronfman

Garden Quotes

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? — Jack Kornfield

Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony. — Sivananda

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on. — Katherine Dunham

We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously. — Grace Lee Boggs

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. — Rumi

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can". — John Muir

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. — Dale Carnegie

There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can. — Alice Hoffman

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness. — Chogyam Trungpa

Garden Design Quotes

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. — James Whistler

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape. — William Shenstone

I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values. — Luis Barragan

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden — Stephen Gardiner

Poet: gardener of epitaphs. — Octavio Paz

Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream. — Christopher Alexander

There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move. — Mirabel Osler

Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden. — Joshua Reynolds

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb. — Joseph Beach

But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil. — David Jeremiah

Rose Garden Quotes

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there? — Pam Muñoz Ryan

The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves. — Malcolm Lowry

If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire. — Rumi

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose. — Kenneth Hare

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden! — Toots Thielemans

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. — Dale Carnegie

I’m the rose that came from concrete. — Cardi B

White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon! — Dick Gregory

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Great Garden Quotes

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. — Wallace Stevens

Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways. — Black Elk

Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that one who deeply respects his neighborhood and everyday world in which he lives will be shown the greatest of all worlds. — Masanobu Fukuoka

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

The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook. — John Burroughs

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are. — Thomas Dreier

The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig. — Texas Bix Bender

The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me. — Samuel Rutherford

Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is adorned with flowers, that is, with acts of virtue. — Paul of the Cross

There is a great power within that when used in beauty and immaculate purity can cure and heal and cause miracles. When you use it it spreads like a magic garden and when you do not use it it recedes from you. — Lord Buckley

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More Flower Garden Quotes

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us. — Ram Dass

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. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, BUT they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple. — Suzy Kassem

A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan. — Zitkala-Sa

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden. — Carlos Santana

He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul. — Celia Thaxter

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. — John Ruskin

Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them. — Victoria Glendinning

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers. — Nhat Hanh

Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other. — John Bunyan

Did you know...that when you walk past a flower, whether it be in somebody's garden or on a vacant hillside, the flower will always smile at you. The most polite way to respond, I've been told, is to cheerfully return the smile. — Ron Atchison

The flowers, the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers are not the flowers of life, but people, yes people are the true flowers of life, and it has been a most precious pleasure to have temporarily strolled in your garden. — Lord Buckley

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week. — Henry Ward Beecher

A woman is a flower in a garden; her husband is the fence around it. — African Proverbs

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens. — Robert Bly

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming. — Jean Houston

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. — Ray Bradbury

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed. — Gertrude Jekyll

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