gardening Quotes

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings – then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn’t take it out of my garden.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.