Gardening Quotes

Allan Armitage: "There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at heart. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. The one absolute of gardeners is faith. Regardless of how bad past gardens have been, every gardener believes that next year's will be better. It is easy to age when there is nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for; gardeners, however, simply refuse to grow up."

Francis Bacon: "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."

Luther Burbank: "A flower is an educated weed.".

Luther Burbank: "Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful: they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul."

Henry James Byron: "When young, sow wild oats, but when old, grow sage."

By all those token flowers, that tell
What words can never speak so well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Earth laughs in flower" .. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Robert Fulgham: "If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity."

Lewis Gantt: " But each spring...a gardening instinct, sure as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us. We look about and decide to tame another little bit of ground."

Dorothy Frances Gurney: "Kiss of the sun for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth. You're closer to God's heart in the garden than any place else on earth."

Thomas Jefferson: "Though an old man, I am but a young gardener."

"The greatest service which can be rendered [any country] is to add a useful plant to its culture."

"Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God."

Gertrude Jekyll: " A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust."

"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."

John Keats: "The poetry of the earth is never dead."

Joyce Kilmer: "I think that I will never see a poem as lovely as a tree."

Rudyyard Kipling: "And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden...You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden."

"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."

The Koran: "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul."

Longfellow: "Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden, And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, kind words and kind deeds."

Mother Theresa: "Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand."

Janet Kilburn Phillips: "There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.

Sadi: "A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul."

Sir Thomas Arnold: "Flowers are my music."

Sir William Scott: "Nothing is more the child of art than a garden."

William Shakespeare: "Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste."

William Wordsworth: "Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher."

"And then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with daffodils."

Henry Beard and Roy McKie, Gardener's Dictionary: Garden: One of a vast numberof free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals

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Martha Stewart: Gardening is a humbling experience.

Author Unknown: Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.

Eleanor Perenyi: To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

Charles Dudley Warner: A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you
may be aiding to grow in it.

William Alexander: The $64 Tomato, How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent A Fortune, And Endured An Existential Crisis In His Quest For the Perfect Garden.

Author Unknown: If you need five tools to solve a problem in the garden, four of them will be easy to find.
Smither's Brown Thumb Dictum: I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.

Dave Barry: Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's motorized garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy
one.
Lao-Tsu: If lightning is the anger of the gods, the gods are mostly concerned with trees.

Henry Beard: Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.

Mike McGrath, WHYY Radio in Philadelphia: You're not a real gardener until you've killed at least a hundred plants.

Lou Erickson: Gardening requires lots of water_ most of it in the form of perspiration.

T.H. Everett: A man should never plant a garden larger than his wife can take care of.
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Author Unknown: My husband said that if I buy any more plants he would leave me. Dang! I'm going to miss that man.

Author Unknown: If a man is alone in the garden and speaks, and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?

Jim Byrum, Cochise County Master Gardener:a true gardener gives away his best produce and keeps the split tomatoes and other deformed and less desirable stuff for himself.

Henry Beard: Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

Author Unknown: A real gardener enjoys the smell of manure better that that of Estee Lauder.

Bill Schulze (and any other regular gardener): Kink-free hoses . . . ain't!