Gardening Quotes

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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
Caecilius Statius

Another, Generation, Trees

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything, Library, Garden

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weed, Whose, Plant

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Care, Children, Remember

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw

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

Food, Sunshine, Soul

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
Voltaire

Work, Put, Rest

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

Nature, Wild, Guess

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Care, Eyes, Themselves

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Good, Someone, Effort

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson

Learning, Weed, Grow

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Orison Swett Marden

Put, Greater, Seed

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Les Brown

Time, Today, Long

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

Mother, Found, Garden

A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller

Good, May, Garden

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot

Rain, Roses, Trees

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

Beautiful, Made, Singing

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

God, Human, Garden

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

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton

Nature, Patience, Help

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson

Patience, Joy, Soul

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood

Life, Human, Made

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
William Cowper

Garden, Loves, Greenhouse

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
Oscar de la Renta

Another, Playing, Relax

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
Alfred Austin

Tell, Show, Shall

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