“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”
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.
“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.”
“A good garden may have some weeds.”
“Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.”
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
“To dwell is to garden.”
“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.”