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Garden Quotes
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. -Sara Stein Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. -Robert Brault There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. -Alfred Austin When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, There is always the garden. - Minnie Aumonier "No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. -Thomas Jefferson Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. -Lindley Karstens 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 Bailey I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. -John Erskine Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. -Robert Louis Stevenson My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. -H. Fred Dale
Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them. -Victoria Glendinning No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -Booker T. Washington
What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. - Emerson Gardeners are--let's face it--control freaks. Who else would willingly spend his leisure hours wresting weeds out of the ground, blithely making life or death decisions about living beings, moving earth from here to there, changing the course of waterways? The more one thinks about it, the odder it seems; this compulsion to remake a little corner of the planet according to some plan or vision. -Abby Adams There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. -Mirabel Osler
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. -Marcelene Cox Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not. In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator, and no two shall reach the same conclusion; nor shall we, any more than other creative workers, be ever wholly satisfied with our accomplishment. Ever a season ahead of us floats the vision of perfection and herein lies its perennial charm. -Louise Beebe Wilder Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. -Lou Erickson Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. -Dwight David Eisenhower If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. -Cicero No ray of sunshine is ever lost, but the green which it awakens into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted for the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith. -Albert Schweitzer Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. -Anonymous Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. -Orson Scott Card
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. -Francis Bacon I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. -Nathaniel Hawthorne To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. -Gertrude Stein All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden. - Reginald Farrer Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God. - Thomas Jefferson The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. -May Sarton I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. -Frances Hodgson Burnett It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. -James Douglas God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. -Author Unknown Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~Sydney Eddison 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. -Roberto Burle Marx How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. -Benjamin Disraeli As the garden grows, so does the gardener. In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone. -Gertrude Jekyll Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. -Stephen Fry
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The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. -Hanna Rion
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is,
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. - Henry David Thoreau
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