“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.”
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.
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.”
“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.”
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.”
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.”
“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.”
“A good garden may have some weeds.”
“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.”
“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.”
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
“In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.”
“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.”
“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”
“Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.”
“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.”