Garden Love Quotes

• If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Friendship, Romantic

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

  William Cowper

  Garden, Greenhouses, Gardening

  William Cowper (1810). “The Task: A Poem. In Six Books”, p.89

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• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Kindness, Flower

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• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Stay Strong

  "The Wright Style". Book by Carla Lind, p. 3, 1992.

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• We come from the earth, we return to the earth,
  and in between we garden.

  Alfred Austin

  Garden, Earth, Return

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• A garden is a friend you can visit any time.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Garden, Gardening, Friendship Garden

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

  Luther Burbank

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

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• Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Flower, Garden

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

  Aristotle

  Life, Nature, Philosophical

  "Parts of Animals". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 645a.16,

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

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Patience, Teacher

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Nature, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.379, Rajpal & Sons

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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

  Francis Bacon

  Garden, Essentials, Pleasure

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• Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

  Louise Erickson

  Funny, Hard Work, Garden

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• If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Nature, Flower, Garden

  Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

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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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• With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

  Lope de Vega

  Life, Flower, Book

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• Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Garden, Pleasure

  "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)

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• He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

  Lucy Larcom

  Nature, Garden, Tree

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• In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Flower, Sadness, Garden

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.84, Tuttle Publishing

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

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Love, Garden, Jekyll

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• Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.

  Mary Cantwell

  Dream, Garden, Thinking

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• In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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