Gardening Quotes

She was a woman with a broom or a dust-pan or a washrag or a mixing spoon in her hand. You sawher cu...

Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody kno...

Ol' man Simon, planted a diamond. Grew hisself a garden the likes of none. Sprouts all growin' comin...

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The...

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

A poor old Widow in her weedsSowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;Not too shallow, and not too de...

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in th...

A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "...

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower...

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the...

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden i...

In Summer there were white and damask roses, and the smell of thyme and musk. In Spring there were g...

Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.

Orwell wrote easily and well about small humane pursuits, such as bird watching, gardening and cooki...

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

The fundamental metaphor of National Socialism as it related to the world around it was the garden, ...

She was a gardener of the ruthless type, and went for any small green thing that incautiously showed...

A weed is but an unloved flower.

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

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

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

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

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

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebod...

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and th...

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

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

Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he ...

He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening wa...

For you little gardener and lover of trees, I have only a small gift. Here is set G for Galadriel, b...

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like ...

Fanfare for the MakersA cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what?To the small fire that never leaves the...

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

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking ...

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries witho...

Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and surv...

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to count...

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reve...

The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not...

In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our m...

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn'...

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zer...