Best Gardening Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.”

“Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!”

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”

“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.”

“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”

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

“The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.”

“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.”

“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”

“Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.”

“All gardening is landscape painting.”

“When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.”

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

“A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.”

“We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.”

“To dwell is to garden.”

“A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.”

“He plants trees to benefit another generation.”

“Flowers are happy things.”

“Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.”

“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”

“I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.”

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

“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.”

“I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.”

“Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.”

“Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.”

“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”

“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”

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

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

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

“Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.”

“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.”

“Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.”

“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”

“My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.”

“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.”

“I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.”

“Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.”

“I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.”

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

“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.”

“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”

“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”

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

“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”

“Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.”

“I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.”

“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”

“One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.”

“I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.”

“Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.”

“If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

“Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.”

“Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.”

“Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.”

“I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.”

“The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.”

“The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.”

“I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.”

“Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?”

“How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.”

“If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.”

“From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.”

“The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.”

“One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?”

“I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.”

“I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.”

“I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.”

“I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.”

“Garden as though you will live forever.”

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

“Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.”

“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.”

“When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.”

“There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.”

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

“It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.”

“I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.”

“Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.”

“A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.”

“I do the gardening.”

“A good garden may have some weeds.”

“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”

“I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.”

“A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.”

“It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.”

“We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?”

“Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.”

“But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.”

“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.”

“There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.”

“The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.”

“No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.”

“The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.”