Gardening quotes

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

- Luther Burbank100

◆ 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.

- Liberty Hyde Bailey100

◆ Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

- D. H. Lawrence99

◆ The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

- William Wordsworth99

◆ A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

- Gertrude Jekyll99

◆ Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau99

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

- Luis Barragan99

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

- B. C. Forbes99

◆ You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

- Pablo Neruda99

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

- Daniel Webster99

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

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.99

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

- Michael Pollan99

◆ Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

- Douglas Adams99

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

- Zora Neale Hurston99