Top 478 Gardening Quotes

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

Alice Sebold

One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.

Tom Hodgkinson

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.

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

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

James Douglas

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

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

Alice Walker

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.

Emma Tennant

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Caecilius Statius

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

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

Doug Larson

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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