Gardening Quotes - Archive
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
The home gardener is part scientist,
part artist, part philosopher, part ploughman.
He
modifies the climate around his home.
John R. Whiting
It is always exciting
to open the door and go out into the garden for the
first time on any day.
Marion Cran
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.
Karel Capek
To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.
Christain Nestell
Bovee
At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is
staying on the path.
George Leonard
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between
work and play.
Arnold Toynbee
The hardest work is to go idle.
Yiddish proverb
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than
with new solutions.
Anonymous
Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners,
ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's
profession.
Shakespeare, Hamlet
V,i
A good garden may have
some weeds.
Proverb
I trust in Nature for the stable laws of beauty and
utility. Spring shall plant and Autumn garner to the
end of time.
Robert Browning
Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what
you intend to do.
Liz Smith
When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful
sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to
some sort of contact with the nature of the world than
the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings,
the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips.
St. Augustine
The way of cultivation
is not easy. He who plants a garden plants happiness.
Unknown
Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that
bestows them.
Chinese
proverb
Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.
Peace is
the fruit of activity, not of sleep.
Ancient Egyptian proverb
If there's one thing I can say about my garden,
it can always surprise me.
David Hobson
Giving a knife as a present will cut the friendship
-Â unless a small coin is given in return.
Francis Grose Provincial
Glossary 1787.
The trouble with simple living is that, though it can
be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.
Doris Janzen Longacre
My spirit was lifted and my soul nourished by my time
in the garden. It gave me a calm connection with all
of life, and an awareness that remains with me now,
long after leaving the garden.
Nancy Ross
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds
on my neck.
Emma
Goldman
Trees are the best
monuments that a man can erect to his own memory. They
speak his praises without flattery, and they are blessings
to children yet unborn.
Lord Orrery,
1749
A garden always gives back more than
it receives.
Mara Beamish
The man who has planted a garden feels
that he has done something for the good of the world.
Charles Dudley Warner
Gardening is a humbling experience.
Martha Stewart
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
Oak before Ash and we're in for a splash, Ash before
Oak and we're in for a soak.
Traditional - which
leaves emerge first and the coming summers weather.
When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed,
I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover
that I have been defrauding myself all this time in
letting others do for me what I should have done with
my own hands.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
If you truly
love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
Vincent Van Gogh
Art is the unceasing
effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never
succeeding.
Marc
Chagall
The love of flowers
is really the best teacher of how to grow and understand
them.
Max Schling
The best rose-bush,
after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns,
but that which bears the finest roses.
Henry Van Dyke
A garden is the
best alternative therapy.
Germaine Greer
Work is love
made visible.
Khalil Gibran
Opportunities
multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu
Nothing is particularly
hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
The more help
a man has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
William M. Davies
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
William Shakespeare
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous
manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary
occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.
Mahatma Gandhi
Diamonds are only chunks of coal That stuck to their
jobs, you see.
Minnie Richard Smith
Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when
it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether
you want to do it or not.
Jerry Baker
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work
and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first
group; there is less competition there.
Indira Gandhi
A year from now you may wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb
To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting
music; it is one of those things which it is far better
to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.
Henry T. Tuckerman
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed
in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
Author Unknown
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture
of the earth, no culture comparable to that of the garden
...
But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.
Thomas Jefferson
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what
they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as
when I work in the garden.
John Erskine
A vision without a task is but a dream,
a task without
a vision is drudgery,
a vision and a task
is the
hope of the world.
Found on a wall in a Church
is Sussex, England, circa 1730
Little flower,
but if I could understand, what you are, root
and
all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Tennyson
The garden should be adorned with
roses and lilies, the turnsole, violets, and mandrake;
there you should have parsley, cost, fennel, southern-wood,
coriander, sage, savory, hyssop, mint, rue, dittany,
smallage, pellitory, lettuces, garden-cress, and peonies.
There should also be beds planted with onions, leeks,
garlic, pumpkins and shallots. The cucumber growing
in its lap, the drowsy poppy, the daffodil and brank-ursine
ennoble a garden.
Nor are there
wanting, if occasion further thee, pottage-herbs: beets,
herb-mercury, orache, sorrel and mallows, anise, mustard,
white pepper and wormwood do good service to the gardener.
Alexander of Neckham, Of the Nature of Things, 1187
All the flowers of all the
tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
Indian Proverb
A lot of what passes for depression
these days is
nothing more than a body saying that
it needs work.
Geoffrey Norman
Well done is better than well
said.
Benjamin Franklin
Joyful is the accumulation
of good work.
Buddha
Flowers are restful to look
at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Sigmund Freud
A morning-glory
at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics
of books.
Walt Whitman
The best insurance
policy for tomorrow is to make the most productive use
of today.
It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you
do not stop.
Confucius
Let no one be
deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute
for putting one foot in front of the other.
M. C. Richards
And why worry
about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow: they
do not worry or make clothes for themselves. But
I tell you that not even King Solomon with all his wealth
had clothes as beautiful as one of these flowers.
Bible, Matthew 6: 28, 29 &
30
God gave us our
memories so that we might have roses in December.
James Matthew Barrie
Tis better to
buy a small bouquet
And give to your friend this very day,
Than a bushel
of roses white and red
To lay on his coffin after
he's dead.
Irish
Proverb
Correct handling of flowers refines the personality.
Bokuyo Takeda
I want real flowers, perennials which not only grow
and change and die, but also rise again and astonish
me. A garden shouldn't just bloom and look
pretty; it should develop like the rest of life. Otherwise
it, and we, live only to be spaded under.
Emma L. Roth-Schwartz
People from a planet without flowers would think we
must be
mad with joy the whole time to have such
things about us.
Iris Murdoch
So plant your
own garden and decorate your own soul,
instead of
waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Author Unknown
Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a
glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia.
Living Nature, not dull art
Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
John Henry Cardinal
Newman
A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life,
a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year,
and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent
rhythms.
Henry
Beston
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or
rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln
And 't is my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
William Wordsworth
I didn't know what narcissism was
until I beheld
my own narcissus.
Charles Kuralt
A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change,
expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should
be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey
on the part of its owner.
H. E. Bates
The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.
Persian Proverb
Flowers are love's truest language.
Park Benjamin
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather
it.
Chinese proverb
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent
people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation
of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends,
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others,
to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy
child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition,
to know even one life has breathed easier because you
have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How much the making of a garden, no matter how small,
adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the
arts and the science can know.
E. H. Wilson
Yes, in the poor man's garden grow
Far more
than herbs and flowers -
Kind thoughts, contentment,
peace of mind,
And Joy for weary hours.
Mary Howitt, The Poor Man's
Garden
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot
to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher, Life
Thoughts
Bread feeds the body indeed, but the flowers also feed
the soul.
The Koran
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of
existence.
Benjamin
Disraeli
...autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at
the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen
Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing
in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and
generally taking the time to soak up a little peace
and serenity.
Lindley
Karstens
When the world wearies, and society ceases to satisfy,
there is always the garden.
Author Unknown
None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves
the wild ones.
Forbes Watson
To garden, you open your personal space to admit a few,
a great many, or thousands of plants which exude charm,
pleasure, beauty, oxygen, conversation, friendship,
confidence, and other rewards should you succeed in
meeting their basic needs. This is why people
garden. It can be easy but challenging, and the
rewards are priceless.
Tom Clothier
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more
helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the
soul.
Luther Burbank
Spring has arrived when you can
set your foot on 7 daisies at once.
Traditional
The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-sides dew-pearled;
The lark's on the
wing;
The snail's on the thorn:
God's
in his heaven -
All's right with the world!
Robert Browning
When all the chores are done, the avid gardener will
invent some new ones.
Anon
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of
existence.
Benjamin Disraeli
A small garden, accordingly,
gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express
himself ... in a garden any man may be an artist, may
experiment with all the subtleties or simplicities of
line, mass, color, and composition, and taste the god-like
joys of the creator.
H. G. Dwight, Gardens and
Gardening, Atlantic Monthly, 1912
He who plants a garden plants happiness.
If you want
to be happy for a lifetime, plant a garden.
Chinese Proverb
how me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
Alfred Austin
As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature
runs either to herbs or weeds.
Francis Bacon
What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and
scents, and scenes. A small hand darting strawberry-ward.
A woman's aprons full of greens.
The sense that
we have brought to birth. Out of the cold and heavy
soil, The blessed fruits and flowers of earth. Is large
reward for our toil.
Ruth Pitter, The Diehards,
1941
I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful
than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know
the beauty of our Lord by it.
Gerald Manley Hopkins
Gardening takes a plot of land, a hoe and willing muscles.
Scratching the soil, harvesting garden fruits, are peaceful
results. With a garden, there is hope.
Grace Firth
The greatest
gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
Hanna Rion
Gardening is
a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.
Author Unknown
Garden: One of
a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by
charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful,
balanced meals for insects, birds and animals.
Henry Beard and
Roy McKie, Gardener's Dictionary
Gardening is
ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.
Deborah Needleman
Season
of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend
of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load
and bless with fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves
run.
From
John Keats
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,
1666
Just living is
not enough ...
One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian
Anderson
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as
paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.
Elizabeth Murray
The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they
are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never
satisfied. They always look forward to doing something
better than they have ever done before.
Vita Sackville-West,
1892 - 1962
Gardening is medicine that does not need a prescription
... And with no limit on dosage.
Author unknown
A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression
of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.
Russell Page, The Education of a Gardener, 1962
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
I also know that we should cultivate
our gardens.
Voltaire, Candide
Gardening
is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is a triumph
of hope over experience.
A garden
is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul.
Sadi
Half the
interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the
imagination.
Alice Morse Earle, 1897
Christmas Quotes
I truly
believe that if we keep telling the Christmas
story, singing the Christmas songs, and
living the Christmas spirit, we can bring
joy and happiness and peace to this world.
Norman
Vincent Peale
Christmas
is a necessity. There has to be at least
one day of the year to remind us that we're
here for something else besides ourselves.
Eric Sevareid
Remember,
if Christmas isn't found in your heart,
you won't find it under a tree.
Charlotte
Carpenter
Mankind
is a great, an immense family. This is proved
by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
Pope John
XXIII
The
only real blind person at Christmas-time
is he who has no Christmas in his heart.
Helen
Keller
To
the American People: Christmas is not a
time or a season but a state of mind. To
cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous
in mercy, is to have the real spirit of
Christmas. If we think on these things,
there will be born in us a Savior and over
us will shine a star sending its gleam of
hope to the world.
Calvin
Coolidge
Christmas
is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality
in the hall, the genial flame of charity
in the heart.
Washington
Irving
O Christmas
Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a
world in the embrace of God!
Guy Wetmore
Carryl
Christmas
renews our youth by stirring our wonder.
The capacity for wonder has been called
our most pregnant human faculty, for in
it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Ralph
Sockman
There is no name so sweet
on earth, no name so sweet in Heaven,
The name, before His wondrous birth, to
Christ the Savior given.
George W. Bethune
Gifts of
time and love are surely the basic ingredients
of a truly merry Christmas.
Peg Bracken
The best
of all gifts around any Christmas tree:
the presence of a happy family all wrapped
up in each other.
Burton
Hillis
Holly
trees protect against witches and so were
often planted near churches or brought into
homes at Christmas.
Traditional.
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