Garden Quotes

Enjoy these inspirational garden quotes. Being in the garden can bring tranquil and peace, it can be a place of inspiration. Share these quotations and sayings with the gardener in your life. A favorite quote of ours about gardens is, "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. Bailey"
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln

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

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.
Janet Kilburn Phillips

Everyone is nice till the cow gets into the garden.
Funny Irish Saying

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly. "One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
Hans Christian Andersen

A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller

A garden is never so good as it will be next year.
Thomas Cooper

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.
Author Unknown

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

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.
William Kent

A single rose can be my garden - a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.
Gardening Proverb

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
William Shakespeare



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