“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.
“It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.”
“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 will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
“I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.”
“A good garden may have some weeds.”
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”
“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.”
“I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.”
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”
“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.”
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.”
“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”
“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”
“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.”