Gardening Quotes
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton
Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.
Clive Anderson
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
Robert Smithson
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
Luther Burbank
Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
Gary Miller
I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.
Elton John
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson
I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
Gates McFadden
I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.
Suzy Bogguss
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
Stephen Gardiner
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
Dogen Zenji
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Orison Swett Marden