A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
5 quotes from Luis Barragan
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
6 more quotes from Liberty Hyde Bailey
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
6 other quotes from Luther Burbank
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
6 other wisdom & wit from Luther Burbank
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
5 quotes from Luis Barragan
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
6 other quotes from Luther Burbank
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
3 thoughts from Alfred Austin
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
10 more views from B. C. Forbes
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
14 views from Jean Anouilh
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
To dwell is to garden.
6 quotes from Martin Heidegger
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
5 quotes from Charles Dudley Warner
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
3 other quotes from Gertrude Jekyll
What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
3 thoughts from Roy Rogers
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.
3 quotes from Gertrude Jekyll
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
12 other wisdom & wit from William Cowper
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
52 quotes from George Eliot
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
39 other thoughts from Robert Louis Stevenson
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
23 more quotes from Walt Disney
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
6 more quotes from Alexander Smith
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
12 more views from Rudyard Kipling
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
25 more quotes from Orison Swett Marden
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
13 views from Stephen Gardiner
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
12 other thoughts from Zora Neale Hurston
Garden as though you will live forever.
2 quotes from William Kent
All gardening is landscape painting.
2 more thoughts from William Kent
A good garden may have some weeds.
45 other quotes from Thomas Fuller