Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. on gardening
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. George Bernard Shaw on gardening
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. Luther Burbank on gardening
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 on gardening
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. Walt Disney on gardening
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. Robert Louis Stevenson on gardening
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 on gardening
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. Doug Larson on gardening
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. Orison Swett Marden on gardening
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Les Brown on gardening
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. Alice Walker on gardening
A good garden may have some weeds. Thomas Fuller on gardening
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. George Eliot on gardening
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. Rudyard Kipling on gardening
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. Francis Bacon on gardening
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 on gardening
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 on gardening
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 on gardening
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 on gardening
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. William Cowper on gardening