Showing posts with label gardeners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardeners. Show all posts

Monday, August 28, 2017

Some wonderful quotes about gardens

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






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