Gardens Quotes
Gardens are a form of autobiography.
- Eddison
A garden is the best alternative therapy.
- Germaine Greer
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint,
and the soil and sky as canvas.
- Elizabeth Murray
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
- Alfred Austin
When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too.
- Linda Solegato
Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise.
- Michael P. Garafalo
How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.
- Benjamin Disraeli
In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.
– Frank McKinney
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
- Charles Dudley
My garden will never make me famous, I’m a horticultural ignoramus.
- Ogden Nash
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
- W.E. Johns
Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.
- Robert Harbison
Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration.
- Lou Erickson
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything except itself.
- May Sarton
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
- Walt Whitman
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
- May Sarton
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
- Douglas William
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.
- Elizabeth Murray
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
- Henry David Thoreau
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.
- Frank Swinnerton
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
- Robert Louis
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.
- H. Fred Ale
It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.
- W.C. Sellar
All gardening is landscape painting.
- Horace Walpole
Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?
- Betsy Cañas Garmon
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
- Hanna Rion
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.
- Mirabel Osler
Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.
- Author Unknown
Don’t wear perfume in the garden – unless you want to be pollinated by bees.
- Anne Raver
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
- Francis Bacon
A garden is a place to feel the beauty of solitude.
- Bob Barnes
The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.
- H. E. Bates


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