129 Gardening Quotes for You to Enjoy

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? Wendell Berry

Time Gardening Enough Our Most Learn Deal How How Much Question Urgent Much Gardens

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. Georges Bernanos

Together Peace Gardening Little Things Nothing Air Those Seem Give Individually Like Perfume Which Meadow Little Things Flowers

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. Thomas Moore

There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air. Peter Mayle

Day You Gardening Garden Better Walk Smell Nothing Meet Air Summer Earth Hot Taking Like Around Coming End Up Than Heat Short Cooler Night

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. William Cowper

Gardening Garden Too Greenhouse Loves Who

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. Robert Bridges

Gardening Garden Clouds Summer Visible See Colour Know Were Rainbow

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend. C. Z. Guest

Good Gardening Garden Having Like Felt Always Friend Loyal

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. Andrew Weil

Justice Gardening Garden People World Cause Reward Random Sense Ways Punished More Makes Effect Labor Often Rewarded Senseless Then Created Large Gardens Utterly Extension

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in. Diane von Furstenberg

Work You Gardening Vision Important Nothing Clarity About Put Clear Know Most Most Important Thing Important Thing Lot Pruning Going Confident Just The Most Important Happen After Then Your Compare Thing Need

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. Doris Day

Gardening Garden Animals Beauty Everywhere Find Well

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

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. Martha Smith

Best Gardening Thinking Some Weeds While Pulling

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. Hilarie Burton

Gardening Dirt Nails Always Gloves Sissies

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. Luis Barragan

Me Gardening Architecture Divide Landscape

Gardening is not a rational act. Margaret Atwood

Gardening Rational Act

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. Anne Lamott

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The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. Michael Pollan

Nature Gardening Garden Meet Halfway Where Place Might

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