Garden Quotes
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Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. (Quote by - Lou Erickson)
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. (Quote by - Henry Mitchell)
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden. (Quote by - Abraham Cowley)
When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls, And the stars being to flicker in the sky, Thru' the mist of a memory you wander back to me, Breathing my name with a sigh. (Quote by - Mitchell Parish)
I was in trouble here, there and everywhere. I just got bored and where most kids sit outside in the front garden and play hopscotch, I decided to be a menace. I did anything just to eat. I did some crazy things. (Quote by - Jentina)
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Hey, if you ever need a Kato, you know where to find me. (Quote by - Mark)
Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another. (Quote by - Robert Harbison)
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. (Quote by - Mrs. C.W. Earle)
A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener. (Quote by - Hungarian Proverb)
One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth. (Quote by - Dorothy Gurney)
I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed. (Quote by - Ian McEwan)
Getting older doesn't mean always you have become a better gardener or have more time to spend in the garden. (Quote by - Gwyneth Dunwood)
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. (Quote by - Lewis Gannit)
It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. (Quote by - John Erskine)
Gardens are a form of autobiography. (Quote by - Sydney Eddison)
What's the word that's burning in your heart? (Quote by - Sam)
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The garden is the poor man's apothecary. (Quote by - German Proverb)
Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it. (Quote by - S.J. Perelman)
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. (Quote by - Lindley Karstens)
A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Quote by - T E Brown)
I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden until the past few years. (Quote by - Claire Tomalin)
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. (Quote by - Mirabel Osler)
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. (Quote by - Sylvia Browne)
As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
A garden is half made when it is well planned. (Quote by - Liberty Hyde Bailey)
Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. (Quote by - Russell Page)
I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either. (Quote by - Meryl Streep)
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed - that can make life a garden. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else? (Quote by - Betsy Cañas Garmon)
A garden is a grand teacher above all it teaches entire trust. [How does a garden teach anything? (Quote by - Gertrude Jekyll)
Wayne's like my son, Brooklyn, who goes out in the garden to play and have fun. (Quote by - David Beckham)
Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as Jobbing Gardener. You are warned of the danger that he may prove to be Garden Pest no 1. (Quote by - C.E. Lucas-Phillips)
Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees. (Quote by - Anne Raver)
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. (Quote by - Minnie Aumonier)
This ain't no garden party, brother, this is wrestling, where only the strongest survive. (Quote by - Ric Flair)
It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing. (Quote by - Eleanor Perényi)
No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. (Quote by - Hugh Johnson)
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
I'm okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better. (Quote by - Mark)
When one attends to another's garden, one's own garden tends to sprout weeds. (Quote by - Jason Merchey)
We're not playing "Spin the Bottle." How old are we? More importantly, how old are they? (Quote by - Largeman)
This is your one opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before, and that no one will copy throughout human existence. And if nothing else, you will be remembered as the one guy who ever did this. This one thing. (Quote by - Sam)
The king sat in his private garden in the shade of a potted orange tree, the leaves of which were splashed with brilliant yellow. (Quote by - Harold MacGrath)
I would love this place to be my garden! (Quote by - Thierry Henry)
A single rose can be my garden a single friend, my world. (Quote by - Leo Buscaglia)
The only thing worse than a favor is a favor involving money. (Quote by - Mark)
I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening. (Quote by - Terence Stamp)
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. (Quote by - W.E. Johns)
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. (Quote by - Linda Solegato)
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Of course you can practice your gofl putting in the garden darling just let me Hoover the grass first. (Quote by - Marcia Cross)
Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
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. (Quote by - Simon Blackburn)
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. (Quote by - Mary Sarton)
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. (Quote by - Evelyn Underhill)
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)
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. (Quote by - Karel Capek)
Just because you've only got houseplants doesn't mean you don't have the gardening spirit - I look upon myself as an indoor gardener. (Quote by - Sara Moss-Wolfe)
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. (Quote by - Abram L. Urban)
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
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. (Quote by - George Cadbury)
What do you do? You laugh. I'm not saying I don't cry, but in between, I laugh. And I realize how silly it is to take anything too seriously. Plus, I look forward to a good cry. It feels pretty good. (Quote by - Sam)
The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. (Quote by - Phyllis McGinley)
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. (Quote by - H. Fred Dale)
On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden. (Quote by - Juan Carlos)
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. (Quote by - Alfred Austin)
How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
You gotta hear this one song. It'll change your life, I swear. (Quote by - Sam)
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
Gardening is not a rational act. (Quote by - Margaret Atwood)
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. (Quote by - Hanna Rion)
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. (Quote by - Orson Scott Card)
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Placemaking, and a good English Garden depend entirely on principle and have very little to do with fashion. (Quote by - Capability Brown)
You changed my life. You changed my life, and I've known you four days. This is the beginning of something really big, but right now, I gotta go. (Quote by - Largeman)
I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. (Quote by - F. Frankfort Moore)
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. (Quote by - Eric Brown)
It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. (Quote by - W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman)
My wife once described the garden as being ludicrous, which of course it is. But to me, ludicrous is good. (Quote by - Bill Oddie)
If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like. (Quote by - Sam)
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. (Quote by - Douglas William Jerrold)
I was discovered in a shopping centre! (Quote by - Alyssa Sutherland)
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. (Quote by - Alice Walker)
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
When your garden is finished, I hope it will be more beautiful than you anticipated, require less care than you had expected, and have cost only a little more than you had planned. (Quote by - Thomas Church)
It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. (Quote by - James Douglas)
Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. (Quote by - Astrid Alauda)
I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. (Quote by - Reginald Farrer)
Wow! I cannot believe you're not really retarded! (Quote by - Sam)
From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return." (Quote by - Robert Brault)
There are fairies at the bottom of our garden! (Quote by - Rose Fyleman)
Our garden was created for him as a place to compose, and he wanted this place of great beauty to last over time. (Quote by - Susanna Walton)
My mom just died. God, it's weird to say it out loud. But, my mom just died. (Quote by - Largeman)
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies? (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. (Quote by - Sara Stein)
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. (Quote by - Marcelene Cox)
By the way, it says "Balls" on your face. (Quote by - Tim)
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains. (Quote by - Bill Shankly)
Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them. (Quote by - Mirabel Osler)
Oh, guys, don't stay in here all day. I had to take the batteries out of the carbon monoxide detector. It was beeping all night. (Quote by - Carol)
Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise. (Quote by - Michael P. Garafalo)
As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden. (Quote by - Michael Winner)
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. (Quote by - May Sarton)
When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved. (Quote by - Frank Swinnerton)
In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. (Quote by - Frank McKinney Hubbard)
When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too. (Quote by - Linda Solegato)
Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. (Quote by - H.E. Bates)
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. (Quote by - Frances Hodgson Burnett)
