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30 Gardening Quotes

1.) “You are the creator of your own garden. Plant kindness and compassion. Water with love and gratitude. And you will enjoy beauty all the days of your life.” – Julie Parker


2.) “A soul without kindness is like a garden without plants and flowers.” – Debasish Mridha





3.) “As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.” – Katherine Francke


4.) “Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.” – Alfred Austin


5.) “If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. ‘Green fingers’ are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.” – Russell Page


6.) “A garden requires patient labor 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


7.) “Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.” – Allan Armitage


8.) “A life without dreams is like a garden without flowers.” – Unknown


9) “Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors.” – Mary Cantwell


10.) “All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.” ― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

11.) “A garden always has a point.” ― Elizabeth Hoyt, The Raven Prince

12.) “I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.” ― Ruth Stout

13.) “We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.” ― Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak


14.) “It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.” ― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

15.) “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.” ― Edna Ferber, So Big

16.) “Who Loves a garden, Still their Eden keeps…”


17.) “Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.”

18.) Flowers are like friends; They bring color to your world.” ~ Unknown


19.) “Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” ~ Edwin Curran


20.) “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ~ Abraham Lincoln


21.) One famous artist even credits the beauty of flowers for their work!


22.) “I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” ~ Claude Monet


23.) Speaking of art, flowers are always being compared to art, and for good reason! -unknown


24.) “Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as a canvass.” ~ Elizabeth Murray


25.) “There are never gardening mistakes, only experiments.” ~ Unknown


26.) “The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.” ~ Paul Hawken


27.) “As is the garden such is the gardener. A man’s nature runs either to herbs or weeds.” ~ Francis Bacon


28.) “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


29.) “A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.” ~ May Sarton


30.) “A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space — a place not just set apart but reverberant — and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.” Michael Pollan,



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