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Garden Quotes and Sayings

These garden quotes will provide you with some inspiration for making the most of your gardening time.

Gardening helps develop qualities in human beings that make them better in almost every walk of life. According to research, those who spend more time around plants have enhanced feelings of compassion.

So, let’s dig in (so to speak).

Inspiring Garden Quotes.

Quotations About Gardens

1.) Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon

2.) It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth, to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season.
Kate Morton

3.) Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.
Unknown

4.) There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
Alfred Austin

5.) My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
Claude Monet

6.) To plant a garden is to dream of tomorrow.
Audrey Hepburn

7.) I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney

8.) The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.
Chinese Proverb

Best Garden Quotes

9.) The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
Abraham Lincoln

10.) No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Thomas Jefferson

11.) May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true.
Abraham Cowley

12.) How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence?
Benjamin Disraeli

13.) I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.
John Erskine

14.) Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps;
Perennial pleasures plants and wholesome harvest reaps.
A. Bronson Alcott

15.) 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.
Mirabel Osler

16.) Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.
S. Kelley Harrell

17.) Gardening requires lots of water, most of it in the form of perspiration.
Lou Erickson

18.) There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.
Janet Kilburn Phillips

19.) The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
Gertrude Jekyll

20.) Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.
Unknown

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Gardening is the purest sayings.

Good Gardening Quotations

21.) Kiss of the sun for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth. You’re closer to God’s heart in a garden than anyplace else on earth.
Dorothy Frances Gurney

22.) The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw

23.) 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.
H. Fred Dale

24.) The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.
Vera Nazarian

25.) 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.
Victoria Glendinning

26.) 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.
James Douglas

27.) I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose, I would always greet it in a garden.
Ruth Stout

28.) One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. Children can experience this excitement and hope every time they plant a seed.
W.E. Johns

29.) The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
Hanna Rion

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Flower Sayings

30.) A weed is but an unloved flower.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

31.) Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.) I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman

33.) After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
Christian Dior

34.) In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
Okakura Kakuz

35.) Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

36.) To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
Beverly Nichols

37.) Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Beecher

38.) Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Sigmund Freud

39.) The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
Basho

40.) The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux

41.) People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch

42.) Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.
Jim Carrey

43.) Flowers are love’s truest language.
Park Benjamin

44.) Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet; all last winter, we slept in the seeming death but at the right time, God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.
Edward Payson Rod

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Gardening Sayings

45.) When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.
Minnie Aumonier

46.) The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body but the soul.
Alfred Austin

47.) I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
Bill Watterson

48.) If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. ‘Green fingers’ are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.
Russell Page

49.) If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

50.) God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon

51.) I like gardening — it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
Alice Sebold

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

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Plants Quotations

53.) I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson

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

55.) Garden as though you will live forever.
William Kent

56.) Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton

57.) Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank

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

Funny Garden Quotes

59.) 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.
Dave Barry

60.) Weeds are nature’s graffiti.
Janice Maeditere

61.) In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.
Sam Llewelyn

62.) Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
George Herbert

63.) A good gardener always plants 3 seeds –
one for the bugs, one for the weather, and one for himself.
Leo Aikman

64.) Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if
green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson

65.) I’m not really a career person. I’m a gardener, basically.
George Harrison

66.) If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener.
J.C. Raulston

67.) A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place
but intends to stay.
Sara Stein

68.) I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
May Sarton

69.) Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get!
H. Jackson Brown

70.) Man – despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments – owes his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
Unknown

71.) Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.
Orson Scott Card

72.) Cauliflower is a cabbage with a college education
Mark Twain

Short Garden Quotes

73.) Oh, how beautiful, and sitting in the shade. 
Rudyard Kipling

74.) The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams

75.) Where flowers bloom so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson

76.) A garden always has a point.
Elizabeth Hoyt

77.) All gardening is landscape painting,’ said Alexander Pope.
Rebecca Solnit

78.) A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb

79.) In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.
Robert Brault

80.) A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson

81.) What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

82.) Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint and the soil and sky as canvas.
Elizabeth Murray

Inspiring Garden Quotes

83.) Gardening, with its patient labor and attention, is not merely to satisfy ambitions or to produce beauty, but it is the purest of human pleasures.
Unknown

84.) Flowers are the music of the ground from the earth’s lips spoken without sound.
Edwin Curran

85.) If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.
Robert Brault

86.) I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
Andrew Weil

87.) Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Jean Jacques Rosseau

88.) Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
Oscar de la Rentawn

Inspirational Garden Quotes

89.) The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice, and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided.
Thomas Moore

90.) A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

How To Pronounce Garden in Spanish

Spanish art has a big impact on gardening in Spain. Contemporary Spanish gardening focuses on the garden and its surroundings. Both landscaping and horticulture are important to them.

Due to the drier soil and high levels of sunshine, most Spanish gardens are indoor gardens of smaller sizes.

The word ‘garden’ is pronounced as ‘el jardín’ in Spanish. Similarly, gardening is pronounced as ‘la jardinería.’ ‘Flower’ is ‘la flor’ in Spanish, and ‘dirt’ is pronounced as ‘la Tierra’ or ‘la Sociedad.’

By Michael O’Halloran

About Michael O'Halloran

Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He’s the author of Best Sports Slogans and Captions. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and authored four books on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought over 75 new gift and toy products to market — most of them dealing with wordplay.

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