Top Gardening Quotes & Sayings

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

#Eternity #Infinity #Flower #Gardening #Hand #Palms

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Library #Garden #Gardening

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Khalil Gibran

#Hair #Earth #Feet #Gardening #Play #Adventure #Delight #Winds #Delights #Springtime

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Caecilius Statius

#Generation #Trees #Gardening

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

Sitting Bull

#Love #Sun #Earth #Gardening #Received #Embraces #Springtime

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.

Alfred Austin

#Nature #Sun #Heart #Gardening #Garden #Rhyming #Feed #Dirt

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#Good #Effort #Ambition #Gardening #Attention #Good Intentions #Ambitions #Intentions #Thrive

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Plant #Weed #Virtues #Gardening #Virtue #Marijuana

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

Margaret Atwood

#Spring #Smell #Dirt #Gardening #Garden #Springtime

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Sigmund Freud

#Flowers #Emotions #Conflicts #Gardening #Neither #Nor

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

#Teacher #Trust #Patience #Gardening #Garden #Thrift

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

Doug Larson

#Learning #Plant #Survival #Gardening #Skill #Weed #Mastered

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

May Sarton

#Nature #Patience #Grace #Gardening

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Rabindranath Tagore

#Gardening #Flower #Petals #Beauty #Gather

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

#Life #Love #Flower #Gardening #Duration

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

Voltaire

#Work #Garden #Rest #Gardening #Cultivate #Eden

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

#Life #Start #Trees #Gardening

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

Gertrude Jekyll

#Love #Seed #Sown #Gardening #Garden #Once

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

Rudyard Kipling

#Gardens #Beautiful #Singing #Gardening #Garden #Oh

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Thomas Jefferson

#Culture #Garden #Earth #Gardening #Delightful