Funny New Year Quote for Gardeners
35 inspirational gardening quotes and famous proverbs
Get inspired by these famous gardening quotes and old proverbs. Read words of wisdom on plants, flowers, weeds and what gardening means to us all.
Life begins…
If you have a garden in your library, everything will be complete. –Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letter to Varro, 1st century AD
Life begins the day you start a garden. – Chinese proverb
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. —Gertrude Jekyll (2011) 'Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur' Cambridge University Press
Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years. – Unknown
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. – R udyard Kipling, 'The Glory of the Garden' (1911)
Garden as though you will live forever. – William Kent
There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. – Janet Kilburn Phillips
The love of gardening…
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies, but never grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives. –Gertrude Jekyll (2016) 'Wood and Garden – Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur' Read Books Ltd
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. –Francis Bacon (1625) Essays 'Of Gardens'
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. – Greek proverb
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. –Michael Pollan (2007) 'Second Nature: A Gardener's Education' p.64, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. – Robert Louis Stevenson (2015) 'The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition)
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. – Alfred Austin "Growing with the Seasons: A Sharing of Insights Into the Creative Aspects of Organic Gardening". Book by Frank Giannangelo and Vicky Giannangelo, July 1, 2008.
My most beautiful masterpiece…
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? –Douglas Adams (2009). "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", p.79, Pan Macmillan
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. –Doug Larson
At Christmas I no more desire a rose, Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. – William Shakespeare, 'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 105
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. – Jean Jacques Rousseau
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors. – Oscar de la Rentawn – Biography
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. – Claude Monet
When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. – Minnie Aumonier
Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. – Allan Armitage
I grow plants for many reasons…
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. – David Hobson
There are always flowers for those who want to see them. – Henri Matisse (1992). "Jazz", George Braziller
I like gardening. It's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. – Alice Sebold "Above and beyond". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2002
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. –May Sarton (2014). "At Seventy: A Journal", p.53, Open Road Media
If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. –Robert Brault
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. – Gertrude Jekyll (2011). "Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur", p.1, Cambridge University Press
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. – Claire Joyes, Claude Monet (1975). "Monet at Giverny", Wh Smith Pub
Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors. –Mary Cantwell
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. – A.A. Milne, 'If I May' Miniature Masterpieces (30 Oct. 2015)
All gardeners know better than other gardeners. – Chinese proverb
What are your favourite gardening quotes or wise words? Let me know!
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He who plants a garden, plants happiness. Chinese proverb.
thank you for you wonderful quotations collection..
'How lovely is the silence of growing things.'
Thanks
I shared with our new garden club
When you are bored, do your gardening and you are no longer know the meaning of boredom..
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
The lesson I have thoroughly learned, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. This is really a helpful article for me I really love this. Do you have a newsletter by email?
Thanks so much, dear David Domoney! I will definitely sign up for the newsletter 🙂
Found an error in my favorite quote. (I verified it by doing a quick search.) There is no "on" in this part of the quote. "…To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul." – Alfred Austin
(Please delete the first comment that is awaiting moderation–I cannot–as it contains an error as well.)
Thanks Elina, the source we quoted from included the on, but we've updated to reflect the widely accepted version.
"Who Loves a garden, Still their Eden keeps…" I can't remember the author but used to have it stenciled on my dining room wall! I still love being in and around a garden and I still love that quote!!
That is from Amos Bronson Alcott, the father of Louisa May Alcott. The full quote is "Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps."
Bloom where you are planted"
My Green thumb is the result of seeing things from the plant's perspective.
Anyone who doesn't believe in life on other planets has never maintained a garden.
God Almighty first planted a garden. Wish he had stuck around to help with the weeding.
A person who grows a garden never grows old.–unknown author
best quotes.. As beautiful as a blooming flower.