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).
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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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
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
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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