Top 165 Gardening Quotes

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening – corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.

When I’m outside gardening, it can be so inspiring. I think of words and melodies. It’s peaceful. Every singer-songwriter should find something outside of music that makes them as happy as gardening makes me.

I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.

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.

Flowers are happy things.

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.

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

I’m pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I’m doing something constructive.

Gardening does so much for your brain. You’re learning how a process works, and how important it is to do everything right so that you can eventually enjoy a tomato three months later. I’ve always been patient, but gardening really helps you with that.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

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

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It’s uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It’s trial and error, really. If something doesn’t work, it comes out, and you start all over again.

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I’ve always loved the woods, and I’ve always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.

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

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

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.

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

I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

I’m mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

There were points when I’ve thought about getting into landscape gardening or getting back to illustrating, but mostly with a bit of a chip on my shoulder.

Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can’t stand going to the gym. It doesn’t appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time.

I like the physical activity of gardening. It’s kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

Software is like gardening – one day I’ll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

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.

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

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren’t really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

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

I am a particular fan of integrative exercise – that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.

The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.

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

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.

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

I’ve never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?

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.

Rock ‘n’ Roll, no roses or gardening.

We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise.

I’d love to take up organic vegetable gardening, do anything that involves learning.

Use plants to bring life.

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 love decorating my home. I’m a gardener too, so that’s usually something I have to play catch up with.

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.

Gardening and my culinary skills keep me busy.

Gardening is one of my enduring, favourite, and most rewarding pastimes.

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.

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

There’s something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I’d say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything.

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

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

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

I’m always surrounded by crazy people, but when I come back to the country I’m into my plants, I love gardening, I love bird watching and I absolutely love nature.

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

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.

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.

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.

To dwell is to garden.

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, ‘You know, that doesn’t look right’.

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

I think that’s my strength, that I am an amateur gardener who loves gardening. I’ve read about it, I’ve written about it, I’ve done it all my life but at heart, I’m just a passionate amateur gardener.

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.

I’ve always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

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.

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.

I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I’d say no. Eventually, I got ‘Godspell.’ It was gently building.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise. That is easy to see and evaluate. It inculcates high levels of well-being. That is undeniable and needs little measurement.

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I’m not writing songs or gardening, I’m painting.

I’ve got really into gardening.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

I’m huge on spring and summer gardening. I’m really proud of my perennial beds. That’s a passion of mine.

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.

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

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.

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

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.

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.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

I don’t think about being the Colin Firth of the gardening world. I live a very insular world based around my family and my home, and to them I’m not the Colin Firth of anything.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

I don’t hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

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.

My partner loves gardening and beekeeping and chickens and all that stuff.

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.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

I like gardening.

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.

People are increasingly realising that what they eat is important. You can’t put junk food in your body and be healthy. All sorts of problems can develop, like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, strokes. Gardening not only helps with exercise and mental health, but it can improve diet as well.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

You have to put your partner and family at the top of the list and there must be downtime – time for gardening, cooking time, book reading time.

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

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.

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.

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

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.

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.

Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn’t find particularly attractive. Also, I’m not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me.

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

Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.

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.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

I like gardening – it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

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 must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

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!

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?

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

My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable – it would be weeding the strawberries, mowing the grass.

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

In search of my mother‘s garden, I found my own.

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.

All gardening is landscape painting.

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

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

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.

Garden as though you will live forever.

It’s my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they’ve got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role.

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

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.

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.

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

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

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

My parents were/are straight-edge hippies. Mom roamed around gardening so we would have fresh food, and Dad was on wood-chopping duty to heat our passive solar home that they figured out how to design and build together. I was the kid with green peppers in my lunch, and I liked them!

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

I find I am growing fonder of gardening, listening to music and reading.

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

I’m not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I’m always wearing a hat and sunblock.

A good garden may have some weeds.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

I think we put far too much interest in trying to get ten to 20 year olds interested in gardening. I think you should do everything you can to try and get them interested up to the age of 10.

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

I grew up at my grandmother‘s house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you’re a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

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.

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.

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

I do the gardening.

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.

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

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built in 1965, and I like gardening.

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

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

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

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