88 Motivational Quotes on Gardening & Life (PLANTS)

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Top 12 Most Famous Quotes on Gardening (BEST)

“It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.”
Shannon L. Alder

If you have a garden in your library, everything will be complete. - Marcus Tullius Cicero — If you have a garden in your library, everything will be complete. – **Marcus Tullius Cicero**

Garden as though you will live forever. - William Kent — Garden as though you will live forever. – William Kent

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. — Remember that children, **marriages**, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. – **H. Jackson Brown, Jr.**

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. - B. C. Forbes — It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. – **B. C. Forbes**

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. - Thomas Jefferson — No occupation is so delightful to me as the **culture** of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. – **Thomas Jefferson**

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul. - Luther Burbank — Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul. – Luther Burbank

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. - Luis Barragan — A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. – Luis Barragan

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. - Jean Jacques Rousseau — Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. – **Jean Jacques Rousseau**

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. - Rabindranath Tagore — By plucking her petals, you do not gather the **beauty** of the flower. – Rabindranath Tagore

Gardening requires lots of water—most of it in the form of perspiration. - Lou Erickson — Gardening requires lots of water—most of it in the form of perspiration. – Lou Erickson

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust — Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the **charming** gardeners who make our souls blossom. – **Marcel Proust**

12 Meaningful Quotes on Gardening and Life

“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.”
Michael Pollan

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. - Allan Armitage — Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many **hopes** and **dreams** are yet to be realized. – Allan Armitage

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles. - Horace Walpole — When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles. – Horace Walpole

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. - May Sarton — A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. – May Sarton

“We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.”
Parker J. Palmer

When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. - Minnie Aumonier — When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. – Minnie Aumonier

If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. - Robert Brault — If you’ve never **experienced** the joy of **accomplishing** more than you can **imagine**, plant a garden. – **Robert Brault**

To dwell is to garden. - Martin Heidegger — To dwell is to garden. – Martin Heidegger

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”
Dale Carnegie

In a world full of roses, stand out like a dandelion in the middle of a green, plush lawn! - June Stoyer — In a world full of roses, stand out like a dandelion in the middle of a green, plush lawn! – June Stoyer

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 — 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**

The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions. - Monty Don — The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions. – Monty Don

11 Quotes on Gardening that Will Encourage You To Start Planting

“The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.”
Vera Nazarian

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too - Douglas Adams — Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to **believe** that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? – Douglas Adams

The more help a person has in the garden, the less it belongs to him. - W H Davies — The more help a person has in the garden, the less it belongs to him. – W H Davies

“I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.”
David Hobson

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. - Thomas Jefferson — The greatest **service** which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. – Thomas Jefferson

April is the kindest month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden. - Marty Rubin — April is the **kindest** month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden. – Marty Rubin

“It is not hard to start a small garden, all you need is a sapling, a planting pot, a small bag of soil, and regular watering. There you go, you helped cooling the earth down by one plant.”
Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. - Gertrude Jekyll — The **love** of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. – Gertrude Jekyll

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors. - Oscar de la Renta — Gardening is how I **relax**. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors. – **Oscar de la Renta**

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. - Gertrude Jekyll — The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring **happiness** that the love of a garden gives. – Gertrude Jekyll

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. - W.E. Johns — One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. – W.E. Johns

4 Quotes on Gardening that Will Remind You of Patience

“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

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 — 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

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 — 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

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they’re tender. They have to be persistent. - Ralph Fiennes — Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they’re tender. They have to be **persistent**. – Ralph Fiennes

4 Quotes on Gardening and Nature

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. - Michael Pollan — The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. – Michael Pollan

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. - Walt Disney — I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. – **Walt Disney**

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 — 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

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. - Alice Walker — In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. – **Alice Walker**

4 Quotes on Gardening To Get Joy and Satisfaction

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season. - Kate Morton — It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth, to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season. – Kate Morton

There's something satisfying about getting your hands in the soil. - E.A. Bucchianeri — There’s something satisfying about getting your hands in the soil. – E.A. Bucchianeri

My extravagance is my garden – it’s the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. - Ina Garten — My extravagance is my garden – it’s the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. – Ina Garten

I like gardening – it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. - Alice Sebold — I like gardening – it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. – Alice Sebold

4 Quotes on Gardening that Inspires Learning & Growing

Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners. – Othello

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. - Doug Larson — A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for **learning** how to grow in rows. – Doug Larson

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That’s the fun of them. You’re always learning. - Helen Mirren — Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That’s the fun of them. You’re always learning. – Helen Mirren

What is a weed A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. - Ralph Waldo Emerson — What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. – **Ralph Waldo Emerson**

6 Quotes on Gardening and Flowers

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. - Abraham Lincoln — I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. – **Abraham Lincoln**

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. - Sigmund Freud — Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither **emotions** nor conflicts. – **Sigmund Freud**

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. - Ramakrishna — When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. – Ramakrishna

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. - William Wordsworth — The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. – William Wordsworth

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. - Henri Matisse — There are always flowers for those who want to see them. – Henri Matisse

Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson — Earth **laughs** in flowers. – **Ralph Waldo Emerson**

3 Quotes on Gardening that Sparks Artistry

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. - Abraham Lincoln — The greatest fine art of the **future** will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. – Abraham Lincoln

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. - Claude Monet — My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. – Claude Monet

All gardening is landscape painting. - William Kent — All gardening is landscape **painting**. – William Kent

6 Quotes on Gardening and Love

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. - Alfred Lord Tennyson — If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. - Helen Keller — Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. – **Helen Keller**

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 — 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

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. - Dogen — A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. – Dogen

A weed is but an unloved flower. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox — A weed is but an unloved flower. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde — Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. – **Oscar Wilde**

2 Quotes on Gardening in Spring

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. - Margaret Atwood — In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. – **Margaret Atwood**

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. - Pablo Neruda — You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. – Pablo Neruda

4 Quotes on Gardening and God

Kiss of the sun for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth. You’re closer to God’s heart in a garden than any place else on earth. - Dorothy Frances Gurney — Kiss of the sun for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth. You’re closer to God’s heart in a garden than any place else on earth. – Dorothy Frances Gurney

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. - Francis Bacon — God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. – Francis Bacon

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. - George Bernard Shaw — The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. – **George Bernard Shaw**

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. - Thomas Jefferson — Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. – Thomas Jefferson

18 Quotes on Gardening that Will Make You Think

“Ol’ man Simon, planted a diamond. Grew hisself a garden the likes of none. Sprouts all growin’ comin’ up glowin’ Fruit of jewels all shinin’ in the sun. Colors of the rainbow. See the sun and the rain grow sapphires and rubies on ivory vines, Grapes of jade, just ripenin’ in the shade, just ready for the squeezin’ into green jade wine.”
Shel Silverstein

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. - Khalil Gibran — And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. – **Khalil Gibran**

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade. - Rudyard Kipling — Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade. – Rudyard Kipling

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. - Alice Walker — In search of my **mother’s** garden, I found my own. – Alice Walker

“On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.”
Maya Angelou