Top 478 Gardening Quotes

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

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

Alice Walker

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

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

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

Luther Burbank

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Michael Pollan

To dwell is to garden.

To dwell is to garden.

Martin Heidegger

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Rabindranath Tagore

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Sigmund Freud

Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.

Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.

Paige Butcher

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

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

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