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