Top 230 Gardening Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

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.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

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

Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.

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.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

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

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

Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.

I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built in 1965, and I like gardening.

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.

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

My partner loves gardening and beekeeping and chickens and all that stuff.

From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

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

I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

People are increasingly realising that what they eat is important. You can't put junk food in your body and be healthy. All sorts of problems can develop, like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, strokes. Gardening not only helps with exercise and mental health, but it can improve diet as well.

It is a good idea 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.

Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

I'm always surrounded by crazy people, but when I come back to the country I'm into my plants, I love gardening, I love bird watching and I absolutely love nature.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

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.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.

I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I'd say no. Eventually, I got 'Godspell.' It was gently building.

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

Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.