Top 230 Gardening Quotes & Sayings

A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

There is a direct correlation between gardening and mental health, not just to maintain good mental health but to repair it as well - that's anything in the gamut from depression to serious brain damage, schizophrenia or autism.

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

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

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise. That is easy to see and evaluate. It inculcates high levels of well-being. That is undeniable and needs little measurement.

As an athlete, if you train your body but don't fuel it the right way, that doesn't make much sense. Adopting a plant-based diet with the right amount of proteins that came from the right places was the way to go. I also just love gardening.

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

I do the gardening.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more.

Gardening does so much for your brain. You're learning how a process works, and how important it is to do everything right so that you can eventually enjoy a tomato three months later. I've always been patient, but gardening really helps you with that.

I think that's my strength, that I am an amateur gardener who loves gardening. I've read about it, I've written about it, I've done it all my life but at heart, I'm just a passionate amateur gardener.

If a person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

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

I like gardening.

My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable - it would be weeding the strawberries, mowing the grass.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

I'm huge on spring and summer gardening. I'm really proud of my perennial beds. That's a passion of mine.

I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding.

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise.

The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.

Gardening and my culinary skills keep me busy.

I think we put far too much interest in trying to get ten to 20 year olds interested in gardening. I think you should do everything you can to try and get them interested up to the age of 10.

Flowers are happy things.

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.

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

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

We are extremely uncomfortable with the spiritual aspects of gardening, and yet most people feel it in some form or other, even if it's a sense of connection to the greater world on a beautiful day.

There were points when I've thought about getting into landscape gardening or getting back to illustrating, but mostly with a bit of a chip on my shoulder.

I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can't stand going to the gym. It doesn't appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time.

Gardening is not a rational act.

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

I don't think about being the Colin Firth of the gardening world. I live a very insular world based around my family and my home, and to them I'm not the Colin Firth of anything.

Gardening is seen as a pastime that is almost like belonging to the Church of England - a sign of maturity and wisdom and right thinking.

To dwell is to garden.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

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.