Quotes on gardening
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
Rion, Hanna
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
Earle, Mrs. C.W.
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
Sarton, May
Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.
Čapek, Karel
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Jerrold, Douglas William
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.
Underhill, Evelyn
Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise.
Garafalo, Michael P.
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
Unknown, Author
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Card, Orson Scott
Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.
Unknown, Author
Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.
Alauda, Astrid
The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
Unknown, Author
I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.
Cowman, C.E.
When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too.
Solegato, Linda
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
Urban, Abram L.
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.
Ale, H. Fred
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
Warner, Charles Dudley