Gardening Quotes:
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
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot
I’m not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I’m always wearing a hat and sunblock.
Carolyn Murphy
I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots.
Anna Getty
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
Roy Blount, Jr.
A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
Kage Baker
Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
Gary Miller
I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.
Eve Best
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall – that when the play is finished, it’s done – but now I realise it’s more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You’re part of a thing that’s living.
Lee Hall
I’m really into gardening.
Brea Grant
The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is ‘the hollyhocks are awfully good’ sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don’t dwell upon.
Denholm Elliott
My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.
Juliet Mills
My hobby is gardening, I love it, it’s my main hobby. I like being at home and I’m very happy being in my house, I love cooking.
Susan Hampshire
Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them.
Tom Irwin
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts
Living in New York after 14 years, I’m such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
Paige Butcher
I love a lot of things, and I’m pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I’d be an obsessive hairdresser.
Gates McFadden
Rock ‘n’ Roll, no roses or gardening.
Tina Charles
I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.
Dennis Basso
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.
Gertrude Stein
A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison
Flowers are happy things.
P. G. Wodehouse
To dwell is to garden.
Martin Heidegger
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
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. Milne
If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
Bill Watterson
A weed is but an unloved flower.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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.
Andrew Weil
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood
Gardening is not a rational act.
Margaret Atwood
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.
Amanda Donohoe
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
William Cowper
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
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
Jean Anouilh
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson
Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That’s the fun of them. You’re always learning.
Helen Mirren
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
Alfred Austin
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
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
Michael Pollan
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
MICHAEL POLLAN
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
Barbra Streisand
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
Ramakrishna
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
Alexander Smith
I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I’m doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.
Parker Posey
Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.
Hilarie Burton
The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.
Jeremy Northam
Mid-afternoon, I’ll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk.
Diana Gabaldon
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees – just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.
Sean Bean
I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.
Emma Tennant
Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.
Emma Tennant
I keep myself busy, I read a lot, watch a lot of TV, and do a lot of gardening. I do stupid stuff and I love it.
Akshaye Khanna
Gardening and my culinary skills keep me busy.
Sowcar Janaki
Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it’s appropriate in protecting the health of the American people.
Cory Gardner
The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.
Lykke Li
I like to keep fit, and when not gardening or singing solo or in a choir, I cycle, play tennis, swim, dance, and practise yoga.
Jane Hawking
Gardening is one of my enduring, favourite, and most rewarding pastimes.
Jane Hawking
I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I’m totally low maintenance. I don’t ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.
Shilpa Shetty
Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.
Lizz Wright
All those who run away to ashrams, thinking they are doing something great are just performing daily chores there – cooking, gardening etc. After all, the place has to be run.
Tanushree Dutta
I don’t see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough.
Russell Smith
I think in the same way when I’m cooking, when I’m gardening, when I’m choosing fabrics. It’s a way of living.
Dries van Noten
There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.
Emily Oster
I’m huge on spring and summer gardening. I’m really proud of my perennial beds. That’s a passion of mine.
Steve Zahn