If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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.-Alfred Austin
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.-Pablo Neruda
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.-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
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. – Margaret Atwood
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
Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.-Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.-William Blake
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.-Ramakrishna
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.-B. C. Forbes
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.-George Eliot
In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.-Alice Walker
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.-Georges Bernanos
Use plants to bring life.-Douglas Wilson
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. – Dogen
I like gardening – it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.-Alice Sebold
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
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.-A. A. Milne
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.-Voltaire
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.-D. H. Lawrence
Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.-Oscar de la Renta
I’ve always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.-C. Z. Guest
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.-Roberto Burle Marx
All gardening is landscape painting.-William Kent
If a tree dies, plant another in its place. – Carolus Linnaeus
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!-Sitting Bull
You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can’t just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.-Bootsy Collins
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.-Robert Bridges
Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.-Rudyard Kipling
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.-Michael Pollan
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.-Daniel Webster
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.-Michael Pollan
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.-Luther Burbank
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.-Alfred Austin
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. – Gertrude Jekyll
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.-Francis Bacon
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
My extravagance is my garden – it’s the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.-Ina Garten
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.-Sigmund Freud
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.-George Bernard Shaw
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?-Francis Cabot Lowell
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?-Wendell Berry
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.-Doug Larson
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.-John Harrison
Flowers are happy things. – P. G. Wodehouse
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.-May Sarton
I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.-Martha Smith
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.-Billy Williams
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.-Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they’re tender. They have to be persistent.-Ralph Fiennes
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.-Thomas Moore
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.-Joseph Addison
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.-Zora Neale Hurston
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.-Eric Morecambe
A good garden may have some weeds. – Thomas Fuller
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.-William Wordsworth
If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.-Bill Watterson
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.-Peter Zumthor
He plants trees to benefit another generation.-Caecilius Statius