Charles Dudley Warner Quotes About Gardening

Quotes about: Gardening

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Funny, Nature, Inspiration

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”

• The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Men, Garden, Essentials

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Leadership, Philosophy, Garden

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

• To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Life, Men, Garden

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

• A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Responsibility, Garden, Essentials

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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