Garden Quotes - Page 9

• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

  Rudyard Kipling, David Arscott (2007). “A Sussex Kipling”, p.85, Pomegranate Press

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• Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Wall, Men

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• To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Life, Men, Race

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours.

  Mary Howitt

  Peace, Flower, Men

  Mary Howitt (1855). “Birds and flowers and other country things [in verse].”, p.11

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• Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

  Ezra Pound

  Kings, Men, Elysium

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• It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.

  Andrew Nelson Lytle

  Healthy, Culture, Soil

  Andrew Nelson Lytle (1990). “From Eden to Babylon: The Social and Political Essays of Andrew Nelson Lytle”, Gateway Books

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• Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

  Alexander Pope

  Genius, Paint, Plant

  Alexander Pope, “Epistles To Several Persons: Epistle Iv, To Richard Boyle,”

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• I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

  Martha Stewart

  Thinking, Effort, May

  Martha Stewart (1991). “Martha Stewart's gardening, month by month”, Clarkson Potter

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• Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.

  Diane Ackerman

  Smell, Sugar, Violet

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.9, Vintage

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• More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.

  Marie Curie

  House, Needs, Feels

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• It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.

  Clare Leighton

  Tree, Plant, Bulbs

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• A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Love, Jobs, Done

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1925). “The Pruning-manual: Being the 18th Ed., Rev. and Reset, of the Pruning-book which was First Published in 1898”

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• The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.

  Ruth Stout

  Weed, Clothes, May

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• Who would have thought it possible that a tiny flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought.

  Sophie Scholl

  Flower, Rooms, Tiny

  Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl (1987). “At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl”, Harpercollins

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• God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Firsts, Pleasure

  Essays "Of Gardens" (1625)

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• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  People, Tree, Looks

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• The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds them, more than to the gardens of men. There is something indescribably inspiriting and beautiful in the aspect of the forest skirting and occasionally jutting into the midst of new towns, which, like the sand-heaps of fresh fox-burrows, have sprung up in their midst. The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Nature, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.120, Xist Publishing

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• The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Inspirational Life, Playing Games

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Young, Old Man

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Caring, Kind Thoughts

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• Bloom where you are planted!

  Mary Engelbreit

  Flower, Volunteer, Where You Are

  Patrick Regan, Mary Engelbreit (2002). “Mary Engelbreit: The Art and the Artist”, p.31, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

  Aristotle

  Life, Nature, Philosophical

  "Parts of Animals". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 645a.16,

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• Gardening is not a rational act.

  Margaret Atwood

  Gardening, Rational

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

  Orson Scott Card

  Funny, Work, Sarcasm

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Homebody: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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