“A good garden may have some weeds.”
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.
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
“A good garden may have some weeds.”
“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.”
“I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.”
“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.”
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.”
“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.”
“Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”
“I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.”
“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.”
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
“I do the gardening.”
“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 like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.”