Gardening Quotes

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

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.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

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

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

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.

Garden as though you will live forever.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

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.

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

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.

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.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

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.

To dwell is to garden.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.