Inspirational Gardening Quotes

• The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.

  Joel Salatin

  Home, Garden, Long Ago

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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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• 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 always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

  Luther Burbank

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

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• One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171

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• I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

  John Burroughs

  Music, Nature, Health

  John Burroughs (1912). “Time and change”

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• 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

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.135, Penguin

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• Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

  Francis Bacon

  Garden, Essentials, Pleasure

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• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, God, Spiritual

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

  Claude Monet

  Beautiful, Art, Garden

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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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• Garden as though you will live forever.

  William Kent

  Garden, Forever, Gardening

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, God, Lonely

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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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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• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Family, Children, Flower

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.37, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Amen of nature is always a flower.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Nature, Flower, Blossoming

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.”, Library of Alexandria

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

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Garden, Firsts

  Essays "Of Gardens" (1625)

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• Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Beautiful, Garden, Sight

  History of England (1911) "The Glory of the Garden"

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• Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.

  Wendell Berry

  Independent, Garden, Thinking

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

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Garden, People, Tree

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• 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

  Educational, Humility, Garden

  Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

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