Gardening Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

  Francis Cabot Lowell

  Garden, Imagination, Goal

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• I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

  Ruth Stout

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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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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• A good garden may have some weeds.

  Thomas Fuller

  Motivational, Weed, Garden

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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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• The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

  Michael Pollan

  Nature, Food, Garden

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.64, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

  John Steinbeck

  Nature, Garden, Earth

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• When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Health, Garden

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics

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• The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Giving, Endure, Grows

  Jekyll, Gertrude (2016). “Wood and Garden - Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.13, Read Books Ltd

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Beautiful, Garden, Sight

  History of England (1911) "The Glory of the Garden"

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• A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Kindness, Men, Garden

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• But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Garden, Young

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

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• My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

  Ogden Nash

  Garden, Garden Love

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• A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.

  Russell Page

  Faith, Hope, Song

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• Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

  Henry Mitchell

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.41, Indiana University Press

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• I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

  Frank Frankfort Moore

  Garden, Thinking, Voice

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• Gardening is the best therapy in the world.

  C. Z. Guest

  Garden, World, Therapy

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• I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Summer, Taken, Garden

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Over 120 Short Stories Including Rare Sketches From Magazines of the Renowned American Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.703, e-artnow

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• But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

  Edna Ferber

  Garden, Green, Weapons

  Edna Ferber (2013). “So Big”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

  Robert Bridges

  Summer, Garden, Clouds

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• Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Education, Teacher

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337

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• Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Believe, Cutting

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1236, Delphi Classics

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• I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Art, Educational, Writing

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (1925). “In the Garden ...”

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