Quotes of Gardening - somelinesforyou

“ You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart. ”

- Karel Capek

“ It is good 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. ”

- James Douglas

“ In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ”

- Abram L. Urban

“ In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ”

- Sam Llewelyn

“ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ”

- H. Fred Ale

“ When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ”

- Unknown

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

- Thomas Jefferson

“ A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body. ”

- George Herbert

“ Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out. ”

- Paul Kagame

“ The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ”

- Orson Scott Card

“ A man of words and not deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. ”

- Nursery Rhyme

“ The difference between weeds and flowers is the flowers are the easiest ones to pull out. ”

- Unknown

“ Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick. ”

- Thomas Adams

“ You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. ”

- Saint Bernard

“ Flowers grow in inches, but are destroyed by feet. ”

- Unknown

“ Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. ”

- Unknown

“ Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow. ”

- Saadi

“ In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. ”

- Robert Brault

“ Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is like one who ploughs a field but does not sow it. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. ”

- Terri Guillemets

“ There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ”

- Unknown

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

- Robert Bridges

“ God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. ”

- Unknown

“ Where but in a garden do summer hours pass so quickly. ”

- Unknown
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