I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the
closest one can come to being present at creation.
--Phyllis Theroux
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on
to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
--Gertrude Jekyll
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything
you need.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild
flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
--William Blake
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the
sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body,
but the soul.
--Alfred Austin
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
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
--A. A. Milne
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been
discovered.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A weed is but an unloved flower.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like
those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume
the air.
--Georges Bernanos
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
Use plants to bring life.
--Douglas Wilson
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
--Alfred Austin
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig
for him there.
--George Bernard Shaw
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of
the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
--Thomas Jefferson
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with
a feeling of serenity and joy.
--Luis Barragan
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
--Ramakrishna
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is
constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some
egregious blunder.
--Alfred Austin
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
--William Cowper
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's
nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around
your green beans.
--Marcelene Cox
