Top 100 Gardening Garden Quotes
#1. Sometimes he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for both these kinds of toil; he called them gardening. "The mind is a garden," said he.
Victor Hugo
#2. I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.
Martha Stewart
#4. However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#5. Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.
Barbara Damrosch
#6. 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.
Joel Salatin
#7. My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
Andrew Weil
#8. Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden.
Joshua Reynolds
#9. It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their own hand at gardening and enjoy all the gifts of health, discovery, and connection a garden can bring.
Michelle Obama
#10. A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Gertrude Jekyll
#11. Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows.
Margery Fish
#12. The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
W.H. Davies
#13. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.
William Cowper
#14. At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#15. I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
Jacqueline Bisset
#16. I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.
Julie Moir Messervy
#17. A garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people; they determine its beauty
Seth Adam Smith
#18. Each of us is like seed, planted by the Good Gardener so we might grow into something majestic.
Seth Adam Smith
#21. I love my garden, and I love working in it. To potter with green growing things, watching each day to see the dear, new sprouts come up, is like taking a hand in creation, I think. Just now my garden is like faith - the substance of things hoped for.
L.M. Montgomery
#22. Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
May Sarton
#23. The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
Stephen Gardiner
#24. Gardening is the best therapy in the world.
C. Z. Guest
#25. Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
Lewis Gannett
#26. Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around and walk around. Apparently people often see me standing there and they wave to me and I don't see them because I am reading the landscape.
Jamaica Kincaid
#27. The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.
Larry Dossey
#29. A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan
#30. I could go on and on. But that is just what gardening is, going on and on. My philistine of a husband often told with amusement how a cousin when asked when he expected to finish his garden replied 'Never, I hope'. And that, I think, applies to all true gardeners.
Margery Fish
#31. In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice Walker
#32. Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.
Simon Blackburn
#33. There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.
Peter Mayle
#34. Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
Doris Day
#35. 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.
Voltaire
#36. In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
Andrew Weil
#37. I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.
Billy Williams
#38. A visitor to a garden sees the successes, usually. The gardener remembers mistakes and losses, some for a long time, and imagines the garden in a year, and in an unimaginable future.
W.S. Merwin
#39. It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
Viggo Mortensen
#40. I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!
Barbara Damrosch
#42. Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
Jean Anouilh
#43. I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
C. Z. Guest
#44. One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be read in the open book of the garden, by those with an eye to see, and a mind to understand.
Edward Augustus Bowles
#45. The garden that is finished is dead.
H.E. Bates
#46. 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.
Alfred Austin
#47. As for vegetables, I do not consider a plot of ground devoted to them worthy of the honorable name of garden. Vegetables are, of course, a part of gardening, but the least, the last, -for those who do not have to raise them, the most dishonorable part.
Harrison Gray Otis Dwight
#48. I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.
Robert Breault
#49. Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. 'The Spirit is a garden,' said he
Victor Hugo
#50. There is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
Barbara Mertz
#51. My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
Ina Garten
#52. For a garden is a mistress, and gardening is a blend of all the arts, and if it is not the death of me, sooner or later, I shall be much surprised.
Beverley Nichols
#53. If you want to have a balanced garden, feed the soil and build the ecosystem.
Cindy Conner
#54. But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
Vincent Van Gogh
#55. Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
Alfred De Vigny
#56. It won't be a chore, it will be a garden,' Holena said.
Jeannie Mobley
#57. A gardin is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death
Tiffany Baker
#58. 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
#59. The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.
Costa Georgiadis
#60. Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?
Felder Rushing
#61. I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers ... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
Beau Bridges
#62. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.
Allan Armitage
#64. Gardening requires lots of water ... most of it in the form of perspiration.
Louise Erickson
#66. There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.
Mirabel Osler
#67. Gardening ... demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.
Gilles Clement
#68. The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
Phyllis McGinley
#71. In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture - it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.
Jamaica Kincaid
#72. If I can't garden in it, then I won't wear it.
Fennel Hudson
#73. I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.
Deborah Moggach
#76. I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.
Don Henley
#77. Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.
John Evelyn
#79. It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#80. Gardening is like landscape painting to me. The garden is the canvas. Plants, containers and other garden features are the colors. I paint on the garden of canvas hoping to create a master piece with my colors.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#81. 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.
Evelyn Underhill
#82. Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.
Deborah Needleman
#83. I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison
#84. When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again.
Emilia Fox
#85. 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.
Gertrude Jekyll
#86. When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
Robert Smithson
#87. I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.
Amanda Donohoe
#88. I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden below would be better off. I know that God values them no less than I do. So when I plant in spring I also hope to taste of God in fruit of summer sun and sight of feathered friends.
Vigen Guroian
#89. Well, software doesn't quite work that way. Rather than construction, software is more like gardening - it is more organic than concrete. You plant many things in a garden according to an initial plan and conditions. Some thrive, others are destined to end up as compost.
Andrew Hunt
#91. This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds - but more than anything, this garden is filled with so much life!
Seth Adam Smith
#92. Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year.
Richardson Wright
#93. I do
sincerely trust that the benediction that is always
awaiting me in my garden may by degrees be more
deserved, and that I may grow in grace, and
patience, and cheerfulness, just like the happy
flowers I so much love.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#94. 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.
Marcelene Cox
#95. My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
Claude Monet
#98. Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.
Michael Pollan
#99. The moment you step into a garden and begin to cultivate and prune, you become a killer.
Andrew J. Robinson
#100. 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.
Emanuel Steward
