“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.”
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.
“I do the gardening.”
“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.”
“Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.”
“I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.”
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”
“A good garden may have some weeds.”
“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.”
“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.”
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.”
“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”
“I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.”
“Gardening is not a rational act.”
“Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”