Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

gardening

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

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

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

To dwell is to garden.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Garden as though you will live forever.

All gardening is landscape painting.

A good garden may have some weeds.

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.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

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

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.