Famous Quotes About - gardening

  • 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 {view}
  • A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. ... Luis Barragan {view}
  • A good garden may have some weeds. ... Thomas Fuller {view}
  • A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. ... D. Elton Trueblood {view}
  • A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. ... Liberty Hyde Bailey {view}
  • A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. ... Doug Larson {view}
  • All gardening is landscape painting. ... William Kent {view}
  • 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. ... George Cadbury {view}
  • 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. ... May Sarton {view}
  • Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. ... Luther Burbank {view}
  • Garden as though you will live forever. ... William Kent {view}
  • Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors. ... Oscar de la Renta {view}
  • Gardening is not a rational act. ... Margaret Atwood {view}
  • Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. ... Rudyard Kipling {view}
  • He plants trees to benefit another generation. ... Caecilius Statius {view}
  • Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. ... May Sarton {view}
  • How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. ... Alexander Smith {view}
  • I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good. ... Michael Fish {view}
  • I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. ... Martha Smith {view}
  • I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. ... Walt Disney {view}
  • I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. ... David Hobson {view}
  • I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with. ... Suzy Bogguss {view}
  • I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. ... Dorothy Malone {view}
  • 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. ... Penelope Keith {view}
  • I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. ... Phyllis Theroux {view}
  • If a tree dies, plant another in its place. ... Carolus Linnaeus {view}
  • If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. ... Luther Burbank {view}
  • If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. ... John Harrison {view}
  • If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ... Marcus Tullius Cicero {view}
  • In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ... Alice Walker {view}
  • It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ... Robert Louis Stevenson {view}
  • It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. ... Orison Swett Marden {view}
  • It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. ... B. C. Forbes {view}
  • It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. ... George Eliot {view}
  • 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. ... Eric Morecambe {view}
  • 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? ... Francis Cabot Lowell {view}
  • Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. ... Thomas Moore {view}
  • Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ... H. Jackson Brown, Jr. {view}
  • Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. ... Alfred Austin {view}