My Quote Garden

Welcome to my Quote Garden.

I hope you enjoy this compilation of favorite garden quotations. Leave us a comment on the “Garden Quotes” post with your favorites, and we’ll add them to the garden for all gardeners and nature lovers to share and enjoy.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don’t wear perfume in the garden – unless you want to be pollinated by bees.  ~Anne Raver

In gardens, beauty is a by-product.  The main business is sex and death.  ~Sam Llewelyn

Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to.  But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough.  Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.  ~Victoria Glendinning

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

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.  ~Author Unknown

“Though an old man, I am but a young gardener.” ~ Thomas Jefferson (thanks to Laura Kinzie)

“No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden.” ~Hugh Johnson