gardening
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
5 wisdom & wit from Charles Dudley Warner
To dwell is to garden.
6 thoughts from Martin Heidegger
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
12 thoughts from William Cowper
What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
3 views from Roy Rogers
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
3 other views from Gertrude Jekyll
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
52 thoughts from George Eliot
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.
3 thoughts from Gertrude Jekyll
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
39 more sayings from Robert Louis Stevenson
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
12 quotes from Rudyard Kipling
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
6 thoughts from Alexander Smith
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
23 quotes from Walt Disney
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
25 other quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
12 more sayings from Zora Neale Hurston
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
13 wisdom & wit from Stephen Gardiner
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
Garden as though you will live forever.
2 quotes from William Kent
All gardening is landscape painting.
2 more wisdom & wit from William Kent
A good garden may have some weeds.
45 thoughts from Thomas Fuller
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.
6 sayings from Luther Burbank
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
5 thoughts from Luis Barragan
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
6 views from Luther Burbank
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
6 more thoughts from Luther Burbank
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
6 more wisdom & wit from Liberty Hyde Bailey
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
5 quotes from Luis Barragan
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
10 other quotes from B. C. Forbes
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
3 other quotes from Alfred Austin
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
14 views from Jean Anouilh
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw