Gardening Quotes

To dwell is to garden.

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.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

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

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?