220 Gardens Quotes

Following is our list of gardens quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about love is like a garden.

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Famous Gardens Quotes

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

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

In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love. — Bahá'u'lláh

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is the flower you've got to let grow. — John Lennon

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

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

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

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

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons — Kahlil Gibran

Short Gardens 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

Gardens Image Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gardens 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.

Flower Garden Love Quotes

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

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

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

Gardens 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love Is Like A Garden Quotes

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

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

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

Gardens 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.

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

Think of your mind, your emotions, and your spirit as the ultimate garden. The way to ensure a bountiful, nourishing harvest is to plant seeds like love, warmth, and appreciation, instead of seeds like disappointment, anger, and fear. — Tony Robbins

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

Gardens 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.

For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home. — Jean Chretien

Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows. — Margery Fish

A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest. — Jeff Cox

I think infatuation is like a garden. If tended and cared for, it grows into love. If neglected or abused it dies. The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it's like to live without it. -Vane — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I Love My Garden 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

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

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

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

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.

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time. — Julia Roberts

I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden. — Pawan Kalyan

Gardens 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.

I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved if we loved one another. I was draped in flowers, bestowed upon me by my brothers and sisters. I was laughing, loving, breathing Princess of Peace. — Pamela Des Barres

I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden. — Patience Strong

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking. — Susan Hampshire

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

Love Grows Garden Quotes

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

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled. — Jackie French

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

A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And grow a fair amount of nettles. — Czeslaw Milosz

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

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

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

'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden cannot be made by somebody who has not developed the capacity to know and love growing things. — Russell Page

Grow a garden, give food away, resist the temptation to give into hate, change it up and try peacemaking for once, love your neighbor, love your enemy. — Tripp York

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives. — Gertrude Jekyll

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal

Love Your Garden Quotes

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

I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water too I have come all this way, eager for you Without shoes or shawl I want you to laugh To kill all your worries To love you To nourish you. — Rumi

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

In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love. — Rumi

If you go to Madison Square Garden, you better have your A game ready, because here goes the thing, they love boxing. They either like you, or they don't like you. They're either cheering for you, or they're cheering for you to die...They want you to kill, or be killed. — Roy Jones Jr.

It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. — W. C. Sellar

There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part, I love all things most gardeners abhor... I like the whole thing to be as wild as possible, so that you have to fight your way through in places. — Edna Walling

There was an old, crazy dude who used to live a long time ago. His name was Lord Buckley. And he said, a long time ago, he said, 'People--they'r e kinda like flowers, and it's been a privilege walking in your garden.' My love goes with you. — Robin Williams

A Garden Is Not Passive. It has its own way of responding to your involvement and commitment to it. When you walk into a garden, you know whether it is loved or not. — Hazel Hawke

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. — George Herbert

Beautiful 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Summer Garden Quotes

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

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. — Robert Bridges

A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year. — William F. Longgood

I'm a regular Canadian girl. I enjoy staying home. In the summer I've got a garden. I'm very much a homebody, a normal, family-oriented girl. But I do have this other incredible side of my life that involves acting and traveling. — Elisha Cuthbert

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

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

It will not always be summer: build barns. — Hesiod

There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself. — Pippa Middleton

In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall! — Robert Louis Stevenson

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand. — Bar Refaeli

Flower Garden Quotes

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

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 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

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

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

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

Great Garden Quotes

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 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

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great. — Jacques Pepin

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Spring Garden Quotes

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

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

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson

April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything. — William Shakespeare

Spring is when life's alive in everything. — Christina Rossetti

Garden Design Quotes

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

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

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

Garden Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Inspirational Gardening Quotes

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

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

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

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings. — John Muir

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

Friendship 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.

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. — Omar Khayyam

Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them. — Erma Bombeck

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter. — James F. Cooper

I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging of the garden it would have been finished long ago - whereas I don't believe a garden is ever finished. They have all gone now, thank heaven. — Elizabeth von Arnim

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures. — Unknown

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community. — Sayings

I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly. — Allen Lacy

Friendship is something that is cultivated. — Thalia

Safe Harbor is a state of mind... its the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song. — Luanne Rice

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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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