Gardening Quotes

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.

“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.”

Gertrude Jekyll

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“It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.”

Orison Swett Marden

“I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.”

Elton John

“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.”

Rudyard Kipling

“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.”

Luther Burbank

“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.”

Liberty Hyde Bailey

“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”

Francis Bacon

“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.”

Liberty Hyde Bailey

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”

George Eliot

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”

B. C. Forbes

“Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”

Zora Neale Hurston

“I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.”

Walt Disney

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

Les Brown

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