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
There is a myth that if you write about gardens you must have a perfect garden.
~Kate Copsey, Garden Writer, Nov. 14, 2008
If we persist, I do not doubt that by age 96 or so we will all have gardens we are pleased with, more or less.
~Henry Mitchell, 1923-1993, one of America’s best, and funniest, garden writers
As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.
~Frances Hodgson Burnett, “The Secret Garden”
We’ve all had our humbling gardening experiences and will continue to have more, which is one of the best parts of the pursuit–there is always a plant about which to learn, a part of the garden to renew, or a technique to master.
~Sara Begg, Executive Editor, Horticulture Magazine, May 2007
Just living is not enough, said the butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~Hans Christian Andersen
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~Hanna Rion
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban
A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting. ~ Gladys Taber
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
It’s a sign of wisdom that seeds don’t squander their energy all at once, instead calmly waiting until the time is right. Seeds aren’t stupid. ~ Midas Dekkers
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. ~Henry David Thoreau
In gardening, all things useful are beautiful. ~Tovah Martin
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Roberto Burle Marx
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson
