Gardening Quotes

Gardening Quote of the day

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.

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

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

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

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

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.

What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year.

I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!

It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.

A garden always has a point.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

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

A garden is a friend you can visit any time.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!

Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

The garden that is finished is dead.

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

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

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

gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

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.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.

Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work - hunting, not gardening.