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Gardening QuotesFamous Gardening quotes by popular authors such as Luther Burbank, May Sarton, Alfred Austin, Francis Bacon, Alexander Pope and others.
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[highlight-text]To dwell is to garden.
Martin Heidegger
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[highlight-text]Use plants to bring life.
Douglas Wilson
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[highlight-text]Gardening is not a rational act.
Margaret Atwood
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[highlight-text]A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]All gardening is landscape painting.
Alexander Pope
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[highlight-text]Garden as though you will live forever.
William Kent
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[highlight-text]If a tree dies plant another in its place.
Carolus Linnaeus
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[highlight-text]Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
William Cowper
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[highlight-text]He plants trees to benefit another generation.
Caecilius Statius
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[highlight-text]What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
Roy Rogers
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[highlight-text]In search of my mother's garden I found my own.
Alice Walker
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[highlight-text]I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
Martha Smith
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[highlight-text]Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
Alfred Austin
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[highlight-text]Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.
Dixie Lee Ray
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[highlight-text]The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
Gertrude Jekyll
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[highlight-text]If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Trees and plants always look like the people they live with somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston
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[highlight-text]The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back with a hinge in it.
Charles Dudley Warner
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[highlight-text]I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
Dorothy Malone
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[highlight-text]Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
Jean Anouilh
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[highlight-text]If you build up the soil with organic material the plants will do just fine.
John Harrison
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[highlight-text]The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Michael Pollan
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[highlight-text]Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh how beautiful ' and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling
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[highlight-text]How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
Alexander Smith
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[highlight-text]I am sure that if you plant the trees back again it will do nothing but good.
Michael Fish
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[highlight-text]The secret of improved plant breeding apart from scientific knowledge is love.
Luther Burbank
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[highlight-text]Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
Oscar de la Renta
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[highlight-text]It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows the greater the harvest.
Orison Swett Marden
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[highlight-text]It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Les Brown
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[highlight-text]A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan
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[highlight-text]Remember that children marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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[highlight-text]The garden by design is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
Stephen Gardiner
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[highlight-text]A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson
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[highlight-text]I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me I guess.
Walt Disney
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[highlight-text]It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. Forbes
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[highlight-text]It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]Working with plants trees fences and walls if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
Dogen Zenji
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[highlight-text]I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.
Suzy Bogguss
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[highlight-text]I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
Phyllis Theroux
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[highlight-text]Flowers always make people better happier and more helpful; they are sunshine food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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