Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
12 thoughts from Rudyard Kipling
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
6 wisdom & wit from Alexander Smith
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
23 other quotes from Walt Disney
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
12 more quotes from Zora Neale Hurston
A good garden may have some weeds.
45 quotes from Thomas Fuller
All gardening is landscape painting.
2 sayings from William Kent
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
13 thoughts from Stephen Gardiner
Garden as though you will live forever.
2 more sayings from William Kent
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
67 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
25 more quotes from Orison Swett Marden
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
5 more quotes from Luis Barragan
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
6 more wisdom & wit from Luther Burbank
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 thoughts from Luther Burbank
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
5 sayings from Luis Barragan
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
6 other quotes from Luther Burbank
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 quotes from Liberty Hyde Bailey
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
10 quotes from B. C. Forbes
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
3 more wisdom & wit from Alfred Austin
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
135 more wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
14 more quotes from Jean Anouilh
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
115 other 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 thoughts from Charles Dudley Warner
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
12 sayings from William Cowper
What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
3 quotes 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 more quotes from Gertrude Jekyll
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
3 more quotes from Gertrude Jekyll
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
52 more thoughts from George Eliot
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson