“Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.”
Gardening teaches patience, humility, and the fact that nature will do what it wants regardless of your plans. These quotes come from green thumbs and casual planters who found something deeper in the dirt than they expected.
“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”
“Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.”
“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.”
“I do the gardening.”
“I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.”
“Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.”
“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.”
“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”
“My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.”
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.”
“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“A good garden may have some weeds.”
“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”