Gardening Quotes - Page 3

• My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

  Eric Morecambe

  Clever, Garden, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.

  Lewis Gannett

  Weed, Drinking, Eye

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• Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

  Unknown

  Horse, Food, Garden

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• In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Parenting, Garden

  "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" (1974)

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• I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Garden, Environment

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• The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Funny, Summer

  "Sun of gOd: Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything". Book by Gregory Sams (p. 78), May 1, 2009.

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• I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

  Sara Bonnett Stein

  Flower, Garden, Thinking

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• How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

  Alexander Smith

  Heart, Garden, Desire

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition

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• It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Spring, Fall

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• I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

  Martha Smith

  Weed, Nature, Marijuana

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• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• Gardening is a humbling experience.

  Martha Stewart

  Garden, Experience, Essentials

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

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• Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

  Louise Erickson

  Funny, Hard Work, Garden

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• While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Fall

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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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 how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Garden, Guitar, Color

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

  Michael Pollan

  Zero, Garden, Thinking

  "Don't give up". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.

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• 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

  Trust, Patience, Teacher

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

  Claude Monet

  Beautiful, Art, Garden

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• Yoga adds years to your life and life to your years.

  Alan Finger

  Yoga, Garden, Years

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• Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying work of art. Every individual, with thought, patience and a large portion of help from nature, has it in them to create their own private paradise: truly a thing of beauty and a joy for ever.

  Geoff Hamilton

  Beauty, Art, Creativity

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• I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

  Ruth Stout

  Nature, Spring, Garden

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

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• I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Garden, Religion, Pulling Weeds

  "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

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• Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

  William Cowper

  Garden, Greenhouses, Gardening And God

  William Cowper (1810). “The Task: A Poem. In Six Books”, p.89

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• One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

  Francis Cabot Lowell

  Garden, Imagination, Goal

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