Gardening Quotes

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

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

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

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

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

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

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

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Use plants to bring life.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

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.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

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

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.