Spring Gardening Quotes

• 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

  Garden, Hands, Earth

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• And Spring arose on the garden fair,
  Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
  And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
  rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Inspirational, Dream, Nature

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• 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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• If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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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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• Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

  Thomas Tusser

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

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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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• The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Spring, Differences, Months

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Fisherman's Luck”, p.95, Wildside Press LLC

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• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Children, Spring, Earth Day

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• All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.

  Helen Hayes

  Dream, Spring, Winter

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• Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Garden, Doe

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.104, Vintage

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• It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

  Mark Twain

  Spring, Heart, Names

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.193, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• All things seem possible in May.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Spring, May, Seems

  Edwin Way Teale (1951). “North With the Spring”

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• The world's favorite season is the spring.
  All things seem possible in May.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Spring, World, May

  Edwin Way Teale (1951). “North With the Spring”

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• Spring is when life's alive in everything.

  Christina Rossetti

  Spring, Alive, Spring Break

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.83, Delphi Classics

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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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• A light exists in Spring
  Not present in the year
  at any other period
  When March is scarcely here.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Light, Years

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1084, Delphi Classics

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• April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Spring, Rain

  The Waste Land l. 1 (1922)

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• April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Sonnet 98

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• Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

  Walter Scott

  Art, Children, Garden

  "Periodical Criticism".

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• Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Nature, Spring, Heart

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters”

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  You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

  Pablo Neruda

  Inspiring, Hope, Spring

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