“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.
“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.”
“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.”
“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.”
“Gardening is not a rational act.”
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.”
“I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.”
“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.”
“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.”
“It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.”
“A good garden may have some weeds.”
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”