Gardening Quotes - Page 6

• It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Rain, Flower

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics

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• To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?

  Beverley Nichols

  Life, Garden, Earth

  Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.17, Timber Press

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• A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Teacher, Garden

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• Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

  John Evelyn

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  John Evelyn (1729). “Silva: or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions”

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• What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Weed, Garden, Definitions

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• The poetry of the earth is never dead.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Garden, Optimism, Essentials

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• An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.

  Leslie Hall

  Believe, Optimistic, Garden

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• Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Garden, Eden, Desire

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.10

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• The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Share the botanical bliss of gardeners through the ages, who have cultivated philosophies to apply to their own - and our own - lives: Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

  Alfred Austin

  Philosophy, Heart, Garden

  "Growing with the Seasons: A Sharing of Insights Into the Creative Aspects". Book by Frank Giannangelo and Vicky Giannangelo, p. 115, 2008.

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• Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

  William Wordsworth

  Art, Garden, Design

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.291, e-artnow

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• One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

  W. E. Johns

  Garden, Desire, Essentials

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• The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Garden, Desire, Doe

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• For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Time, Fall, Autumn

  "Autumn Across America". Book by Edwin Way Teale, 1956.

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

  Mary Cantwell

  Dream, Garden, Thinking

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• Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals.

  Henry Beard

  Animal, Garden, Numbers

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• In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

  Sam Llewellyn

  Death, Sex, Garden

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• Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Love, Garden, Eden

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.10

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• Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.

  Jerry Baker

  Success, Garden, Done

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• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  John Roberts

  Art, Drama, Flower

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• I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

  Allen Lacy

  Garden, People, Joy

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• Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

  Paul Harvey

  Rain, Men, Garden

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• God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Garden, Perfection

  Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

  Gates McFadden

  Architecture, Hairstyles, Obsessive

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• The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

  Jeremy Northam

  Love, Peace, Light

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