Gardening Quotes

Lessons that grow slower than we'd like.

These lines treat the garden as a teacher of restraint - asking how much tending is actually enough, and noting that too much outside help can loosen a person's own claim on the work. Related ideas continue in our Garden collection.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

Quotes by Adam Ant

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.

Quotes by Aaron Taylor-Johnson

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

Quotes by A. A. Milne

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

Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Quotes by William Wordsworth

Garden as though you will live forever.

Quotes by William Kent

All gardening is landscape painting.

Quotes by William Kent

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Quotes by William Cowper

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.

Quotes by William Blake

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A few quotes here also notice how plants seem to take on the character of whoever lives among them, and how the quietest flower can carry the strongest scent. See more in our Flower and Good pages.