Gardening Quotes - Page 8

• We must cultivate our own garden.

  Voltaire

  Healing, Garden, Eden

  1759 Candide, ch.30.

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• If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Motivational, Death, Nature

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

  Luis Barragan

  Landscape, Architecture, Divides

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• What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

  Roy Rogers

  Butterfly, Garden, Social Butterfly

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• Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.

  H. E. Bates

  Girl, Garden, Curves

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• I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

  Robert Breault

  Garden, Gardener

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• My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

  J. B. Smoove

  House, Cleaning, Life Is

  "J.B. Smoove Talks Larry David’s Bigwig Friends, Playboy Ways". Interview with Jessie Heyman, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Where flowers bloom so does hope.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Hope, Spring, Flower

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• I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

  Sean Bean

  Couple, Autumn, Tree

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• When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling as if he had a strange communion with it, as if the gentian yielded up its blueness, its very essence, to him. Everything he met had the newness of a creation just that moment come into being.

  Frieda Lawrence

  Blue, Essence, Feelings

  Frieda Lawrence (2017). “Not I, But the Wind... by Frieda Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.31, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• Gardening is all about optimism. I put a seed in the ground. I consistently tend it, confident I will see the results, in time, of the nurture I have provided.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Time, Stupid, Optimism

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• 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

  Garden, Giving, Wish

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Nature, Flower, Philosophical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

  May Sarton

  Death, Failure, Loss

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at heart. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. The one absolute of gardeners is faith. Regardless of how bad past gardens have been, every gardener believes that next year's will be better. It is easy to age when there is nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for, gardeners, however, simply refuse to grow up.

  Allan Armitage

  Death, Dream, Growing Up

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• Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.

  Barbara Damrosch

  Simple, Garden, Thinking

  Barbara Damrosch (2003). “The Garden Primer”, p.18, Rodale

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• 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

  Educational, Humility, Garden

  Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

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• Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

  Henry Mitchell

  Confused, Garden, Religion

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.1, Indiana University Press

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• For optimal health, we need body and spirit, exercise (ming) and meditation, awareness of the inner world and the outer. In other words, health requires balance and moderation. The goal of qigong may be summarized as xing ming shuang xiu,spirit and body equally refined and cultivated. Cultivate your whole being, as you would cultivate a garden with attention, care, and even love.

  Ken Cohen

  Exercise, Garden, Qigong

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• Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Rocks, Color

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• By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

  John Henry Newman

  Spiritual, Peace, Garden

  John Henry Newman (2002). “Prayers, Verses, and Devotions”, p.127, Ignatius Press

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• Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Jobs, Garden

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4723, e-artnow

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• A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.

  Jeff Cox

  Mother, Song, Garden

  Jeff Cox (1993). “Creating a Garden for the Senses”

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Gardening is the instrument of grace.

  May Sarton

  Grace, Instruments

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