Gardening Quotes

• The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

  Larry Dossey

  Life, Spiritual, Garden

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  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

  Life, Patience, Nature

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• A garden is a friend you can visit any time.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Garden, Garden Love, Friendship Garden

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

  Alfred Austin

  Heart, Garden, Hands

  "Growing with the Seasons: A Sharing of Insights Into the Creative Aspects of Organic Gardening". Book by Frank Giannangelo and Vicky Giannangelo, July 1, 2008.

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

  Henry Beard

  Funny, Flower, Autumn

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• So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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• We come from the earth, we return to the earth,
  and in between we garden.

  Alfred Austin

  Garden, Earth, Return

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• If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Educational, Book

  To Varro, in "Ad Familiares" IX, 4,

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  Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Nature, Flower, Garden

  Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

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  We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.

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• No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Culture, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.6

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• Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

  Francis Bacon

  Garden, Essentials, Pleasure

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• Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.

  Allan Armitage

  Dream, Garden, Doe

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• Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Flower, Garden

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Weed, Nature

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

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• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Love, Inspirational, Nature

  "Trees" l. 1 (1913)

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• To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Nature, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.379, Rajpal & Sons

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• In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nature, Spring, Garden

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

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• Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Garden, Care, Garden Love

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• If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

  Robert Brault

  Garden, Joy, Imagine

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• The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Funny, Optimistic, Garden

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• 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

  Work, Garden, Occupation

  Mirabel Osler (2012). “A Gentle Plea for Chaos”, p.38, A&C Black

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