“Gardening is not a rational act.”
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.
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
“Gardening is not a rational act.”
“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.”
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.”
“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”
“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.”
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.”
“To dwell is to garden.”
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”
“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”