220 Gardening Quotes

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Famous Gardening Quotes

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity. — John Evelyn

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe. — Thomas Berry

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

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

All gardening is landscape painting. — William Kent

Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can’t stand going to the gym. It doesn’t appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time. — Mary Berry

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. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

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

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate. — Jeffrey Donovan

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. — Larry Dossey

To be able to walk out the door when you come home from a job and wander into the garden to do a bit of watering gives you time to be creative in your mind. — Mary Berry

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

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

It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old you are. — Peter Cundall

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

Short Gardening Quotes

  • If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • 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
  • Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks. — Charlemagne
  • Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners. — William Shakespeare
  • If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. — Abraham Lincoln
  • Where flowers bloom so does hope. — Lady Bird Johnson
  • In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness. — Chogyam Trungpa

Gardening Image Quotes

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

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

Do not spread the compost on the weeds. - William Shakespeare quote

Do not spread the compost on the weeds. — William Shakespeare

The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier. - Antal Szerb quote

The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier. — Antal Szerb

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. - Marianne Moore quote

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. — Marianne Moore

Silence is the garden of thought. - Ali ibn Abi Talib quote

Silence is the garden of thought. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

Gardening 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.

Happy 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

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

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. — English Proverbs

Gardening quote Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our sou
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. — Jim Rohn

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? — Chuck Palahniuk

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

Gardening 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.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden. — David W. Wolfe

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. — Gertrude Jekyll

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

When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before any one is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. — Celia Thaxter

I Love Gardening Quotes

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. — Juliet Mills

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

As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language. — Thomas More

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

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life. — Marilynne Robinson

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

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening. — Steven Cojocaru

Gardening quote To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's. — Mary Cantwell

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

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

Vegetable Gardening Quotes

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. — Gertrude Stein

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water. — Joan Miro

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be. — E. B. White

Gardening 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.

Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean. — Dan Buettner

The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt. — Dave Barry

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

Gardening quote We must cultivate our own garden.
We must cultivate our own garden.

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. — Kin Hubbard

This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke. — Jane Grigson

Cares melt when you kneel in your garden. — Okakura Kakuzo

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. — Ambrose Bierce

Positive Gardening Quotes

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse. — Roger Williams

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. - Frances Hodgson Burnett

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Gardening quote If there is no gardener, there is no garden.
If there is no gardener, there is no garden.

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

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

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah! — Joseph Campbell

Gardening quote Growing you own food is like printing your own money!
Growing you own food is like printing your own money!

We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world. — Guy Laliberte

Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle. — Samuel Beckett

There's no doubt in my mind that we'll have a mania in gold. And because the gold and especially silver markets are so tiny, the rush into them will be like trying to push the contents of Hoover Dam through a garden hose. Our positions will go absolutely ballistic. — Doug Casey

Backyard Gardening Quotes

Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and the infinite universe are absorbed through the foods we eat and are transmuted into our thoughts and actions. — Michio Kushi

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. — Christian Wiman

There are many gods . . . gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones--. . . . The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods. — Rudolfo Anaya

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. — John Betjeman

No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests as backyard gardens, greenhouses and community spaces. — Greg Peterson

Today's gardens have become far more than things of beauty. And today's generation is fast finding out that backyards can be an extremely resourceful and powerful tool in not just providing food for the family but also a brilliant way of connecting children with the natural world. — Jamie Durie

I have a garden in my backyard that's completely organic, which I'm very proud of. — Ariana Grande

Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don’t do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible. — Kirby Larson

Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether haven, pantry or playground, they all tell a story. — Pete Munro

The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride. — Pete Munro

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Garden Love Quotes

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

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

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

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. - Zeno of Elea

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. — Zeno of Elea

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inspirational Gardening Quotes

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

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

If a tree dies, plant another in its place. - Carl Linnaeus

If a tree dies, plant another in its place. — Carl Linnaeus

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. — Susan L. Taylor

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen — Rod McKuen

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. — Leonard Nimoy

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

And that’s the point — why we’re here planting trees. It takes a long time to grow these systems and build these systems up. — Charles Hoskinson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This body is yours. No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again--your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. It's all yours. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. This garden is yours. Take it back. Take it back. — Jean Hegland

Planting A 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

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. - Audrey Hepburn

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. — Audrey Hepburn

Blow up your TV...throw away your paper...move to the country and build you a home. Plant a little garden...eat a lot of peaches...try and find Jesus on your own. — John Prine

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. — Sayings

Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants. - Susun Weed

Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants. — Susun Weed

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. — Orson Scott Card

As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life. — James Hunter

As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise. — Cassandra Danz

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

Rose Garden Quotes

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

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. — Leo Buscaglia

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

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

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

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

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Gardening And God Quotes

Being in the nude isn't a disgrace unless you're being promiscuous about it. After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too! — Bettie Page

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

I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go, Holy apartments in the gardens in which the rivers flow, thank you for all your blessings and all of your miracles. — Lupe Fiasco

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away! — Rudyard Kipling

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear. — Angelus Silesius

Whoever wishes to be delivered from the Fire and enter the Garden should die with faith in God and the Last Day and should treat the people as he wishes to be treated by them. — Prophet Muhammad

This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near. — John Piper

The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter. — Lucan

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

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. — Thomas Jefferson

Garden Quotes

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

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

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

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry

I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys. — Julius Malema

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

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. — James Allen

If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer. — Saint John Chrysostom

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. — Masanobu Fukuoka

Garden Design Quotes

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

In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom. — Jason Hill

Vegetable Garden Quotes

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown. — Alice B. Toklas

One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or leaving it on the doorstep, ringing the bell, and running - is a social faux pas. — Barbara Holland

How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans. — Kamila Shamsie

Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity. — Gilles Clement

To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables. — Prince Charles

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. — Jeanette Winterson

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. — Robert Breault

You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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

I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps. — Curtis Stone

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More Gardening Quotes

The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter. — Bill Mollison

Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price! — Abu Hamid AlGhazzali

Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price! — Al-Ghazali

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

If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner. — Hammurabi

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