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1. “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
2. “The glory of gardening—hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.” – Alfred Austin
3. “I grow plants for many reasons—to please my eye or to please my soul, to the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly, for the joy in seeing them grow.” – David Hobson
4. “The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.” – Rabindranath Tagore
5. “Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
6. “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.” –
7. “The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.” – George Bernard Shaw
8. “You have to get up, and plant the seed, and see if it grows, but you can’t just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.” – Bootsy Collins
9. “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhi
10. “The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think, and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.” – Michael Pollan
11. “One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.” – W.E. Johns
12. “There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.” – Alfred Austin
13. “If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. ‘Green fingers’ are a fact and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.” – Russell Page
14. “It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.” – Shannon L. Alder
15. “If you have a garden in your library, everything will be complete.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
16. “Plant, and your spouse plants with you. Weed, and you weed alone.” – Jean Jacques Rousseau
17. “Gardens are not made by singing, ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.” –
18. “The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.” – Michael Pollan
19. “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” – Douglas Adams
20. “Life begins the day you start a garden.” – Chinese Proverb
21. “My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.” – Claude Monet
22. “All gardeners know better than other gardeners.” – Chinese Proverb
23. “Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.” – Alfred Austin
24. “He plants trees to benefit another generation.” – Caecilius Statius
25. “It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the spring, who reaps a harvest in the autumn.” – B. C. Forbes
26. “Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything—except itself.” – May Sarton
27. “Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That’s the fun of them. You’re always learning.” – Helen Mirren
28. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” – Abraham Lincoln
29. “The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.” – Monty Don
30. “I like gardening. It’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.” – Alice Sebold
31. “There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.” – Janet Kilburn Phillips
32. “When the world wears out and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.” – Minnie Aumonier
33. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” – Henri Matisse
34. “If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.” – Robert Brault
35. “I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Claire Joyes
36. “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” – Khalil Gibran
37. “A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.” – Dogen
38. “I’ve always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.” – C. Z. Guest
39. “Farming is a profession of hope.” – Brian Brett
40. “The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” – Dalai Lama
41. “One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one’s horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?” – Francis Cabot Lowell
42. “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.” – Diane von Furstenberg
43. “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie
44. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn
45. “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” – Greek Proverb
46. “It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more trees.” – George Eliot
47. “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.” – Liberty Hyde Bailey
48. “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.” – Penelope Keith
49. “Gardening requires lots of water—most of it in the form of perspiration.” – Lou Erickson
50. “The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.” – W. H. Davies
51. “If a tree dies, plant another in its place.” – Carl Linnaeus
52. “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.” – George Cadbury
53. “The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.” – Wendell Berry
54. “Life’s a garden, dig it.” –
55. “Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness, nothing comes to birth, and without light, nothing flowers.” – May Sarton
56. “A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.” – May Sarton
57. “Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.” – Anonymous
58. “Garden as though you will live forever.” – William Kent
59. “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.” – Penelope Keith
60. “No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.” – Thomas Jefferson
61. “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
62. “Use plants to bring life.” – Douglas Wilson
63. “Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.” – Jean Anouilh
64. “Earth laughs in flowers.” –
65. “It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in ’em. When I ponder on them seeds I don’t find it nowise hard to believe that we’ve got souls that’ll live in other worlds. You couldn’t hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn’t seen the miracle, could you?” – Captain Jim
66. “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.” – Monty Don
67. “Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.” – Allan Armitage
68. “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful. They are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” – Luther Burbank
69. “I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.” – Monty Don
70. “Little things senem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless, but all together perfume the air. .” – Georges Bernanos
71. “There’s something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.” – Ken Kesey
72. “The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.” – Hanna Rion
73. “In almost every garden, the land is made better, and so is the gardener.” – Robert Rodale
74. “Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.” – Wendell Berry
75. “I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.” – Robert Breault
76. “Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember processes, and it helps me remember patience.” – Lizz Wright
77. “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.” – Ross Gay
78. “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 are undeniable and needs little measurement.” – Monty Don
79. “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.” – Marc Gasol
80. “There is a direct correlation between gardening and mental health, not just to maintain good mental health but to repair it as well—that’s anything in the gamut from depression to serious brain damage, schizophrenia, or autism.” – Monty Don
81. “In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.” – Andrew Weil
82. “Gardening is a humbling experience.” – Martha Stewart
83. “To dwell is to garden.” – Martin Heidegger
84. “The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.” – Stephen Gardiner
85. “Gardens are a form of autobiography.” – Sydney Eddison
86. “Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.” – Mrs. C.W. Earle
87. “A garden always has a point.” – Elizabeth Hoyt
88. “My garden is my favorite teacher.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon
89. “The garden is the poor man’s apothecary.” – German Proverb
90. “A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.” – Luis Barragan
91. “Gardening is not a rational act.” – Margaret Atwood
92. “Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.” – Monty Don
93. “Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite—it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.” – Andrew Weil
94. “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.’” – Siddhartha Mukherjee
95. “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.” – Ina Garten
96. “God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.” – Francis Bacon
97. “It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
98. “Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.” – Oscar de la Renta
99. “I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.” – Barbra Streisand
100. “How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.” – Alexander Smith
101. “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.” – J. Carter Brown
102. “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.” – Marcelene Cox
103. “Gardening is one of my enduring, favourite, and most rewarding pastimes.” – Jane Hawking
104. “Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” – Sigmund Freud
105. “Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity.” – Lindley Karstens
106. “The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.” – Lillie Langtry
107. “There can be no other occupation like gardening, in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.” – Mirabel Osler
108. “There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.” – John Steinbeck
109. “Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
110. “I think this is what hooks one to gardening—it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.” – Phyllis Theroux
111. “I don’t like formal gardens, I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.” –
112. “Despite the gardener’s best intentions, nature will improvise.” – Michael P. Garofalo
113. “Let nature be in your yard.” – Michael P. Garofalo
114. “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.” – Peter Mayle
115. “We are extremely uncomfortable with the spiritual aspects of gardening, and yet, most people feel it in some form or other, even if it’s a sense of connection to the greater world on a beautiful day.” – Monty Don
116. “Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.” – May Sarton
117. “It is a good idea 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
118. “I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.” – Robert Bridges
119. “By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” – Rabindranath Tagore
120. “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
121. “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.” – Peter Zumthor
122. “Well, I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.” – Doris Day
123. “A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant—rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance—but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.” – Roberto Burle Marx
124. “Almost every person from childhood has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.” – Lady Bird Johnson
125. “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
126. “Gardening is cheaper than therapy, and you get tomatoes.” – Anonymous
127. “Don’t wear perfume in the garden—unless you want to be pollinated by bees.” – Anne Raver
128. “Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.” – AnonymousHurston
129. “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
130. “In every gardener, there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.” – Robert Breault
131. “I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.” – Joseph Addison
132. “Plant carrots in January and you’ll never have to eat carrots.” – Anonymous
133. “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” – Betsy Cañas Garmon
134. “I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries.” – Novella Carpenter
135. “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
136. “If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.” – Bill Watterson
137. “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.” – Eric Morecambe
138. “Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.” – Hilarie Burton
139. “Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.” – David Chang
140. “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?” – Mike Krieger
141. “I love being in my garden. I don’t plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.” – Jacqueline Bisset
142. “I also like to garden. I grow things—vegetables, flowers. I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.” – Beau Bridges
143. “We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.” – Evelyn Underhill
144. “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
145. “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 rose hips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.” – Emma Tennant
146. “I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn, and working in the garden when I have time. That’s therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.” – Billy Williams
147. “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.” – D. H. Lawrence
148. “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.” – Gertrude Jekyll
149. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – Anonymous
150. “Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.” – William Cowper
151. “The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.” – Gertrude Jekyll
152. “One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.” – Robert Fortune
153. “A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then, he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.” – Liberty Hyde Bailey
154. “The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.” – Luther Burbank
155. “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” – Helen Keller
156. “From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odor to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away, let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.” – Thomas Moore
157. “To see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.” – William Blake
158. “The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.” – William Wordsworth
159. “How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.” – Benjamin Disraeli
160. “Against her ankles, as she trod. The lucky buttercups did nod.” – Jean Ingelow
161. “Ol’ man Simon planted a diamond. Grew hisself a garden the likes of none. Sprouts all growin’, comin’ up, glowin’. Fruit of jewels all shinin’ in the sun. Colors of the rainbow, see the sun and the rain grow sapphires and rubies on ivory vines, grapes of jade, just ripenin’ in the shade, just ready for the squeezin’ into green jade wine.” –
162. “Kiss of the sun for pardon, song of the birds for mirth. You’re closer to God’s heart in a garden than any place else on earth.” – Dorothy Frances Gurney
163. “The earth is rocky and full of roots; it’s clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you’ll never see it again—it’s death, and clay, and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.” –
164. “We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.” – Parker J. Palmer
165. “I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.” – Reginald Farrer
166. “A gardener’s best tool is the knowledge from previous seasons. And it can be recorded in a $2 notebook.” – Andy Tomolonis
167. “Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind, lettuce be thankful, squash selfishness, turnip to help thy neighbor, and always make thyme for loved ones.” – Anonymous
168. “An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.” – Leslie Hall
169. “Working with plants, trees, fences, and walls—if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.” – Dogen
170. “Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience—they’re tender. They have to be persistent.” – Ralph Fiennes
171. “The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.” – Vera Nazarian
172. “Anthropocentric as the gardener may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatever he does. He is in fact a wilderness advocate of a certain kind. It is when he respects and nurtures the wilderness of his soil and his plants that his garden seems to flourish most. Wildness, he has found, resides not only out there, but right here: in his soil, in his plants, even in himself. But wildness is more a quality than a place, and though humans can’t manufacture it, they can nourish and husband it. The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.” – Michael Pollan
173. “Gardeners learn by trowel and error.” – Anonymous
174. “Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors.” – Mary Cantwell
175. “We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?” – Wendell Berry
176. “Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.” – Victoria Glendinning
177. “If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.” – John Harrison
178. “The herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the flowers also.” – Nicholas Culpeper
179. “The cottage garden—most for use designed, yet not of beauty destitute.” – Charlotte Smith
180. “One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading, never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me—that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.” – Tom Hodgkinson
181. “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
182. “Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.” – Monty Don
183. “Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering state, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.” – Robert Fortune
184. “Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
185. “Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flower beds with edibles.” – Greg Peterson
186. “Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.” – Zora Neale
187. “The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” – Abraham Lincoln
188. “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?” – Alfred de Vigny
189. “When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.” – Robert Smithson
190. “I don’t divide architecture, landscape, and gardening. To me, they are one.” – Luis Barragan
191. “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 no drama.” – J. M. Roberts
192. “At Christmas, I no more desire a rose than wish for snow in May’s new-fangled mirth, but like of each thing that in season grows.” – William Shakespeare
193. “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” – Margaret Atwood
194. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda
195. “It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth, to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season.” – Kate Morton
196. “There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter—one is the January thaw, the other is the seed catalogues.” – Hal Borland
197. “I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose, I would always greet it in a garden.” – Ruth Stout
198. “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!” – Sitting Bull
199. “A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.” – Doug Larson
200. “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
201. “Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” – A.A. Milne
202. “A weed is but an unloved flower.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
203. “Weed it and reap.” – Anonymous
204. “Do not spread the compost on the weeds.” – William Shakespeare
205. “I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.” – Martha Smith
206. “When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.” – Horace Walpole
207. “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?” – Alex Honnold
208. “I love decorating my home. I’m a gardener too. So, that’s usually something I have to play catch up with.” – Suzy Bogguss
209. “All gardening is landscape painting.” – William Kent
210. “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.” – Jamaica Kincaid
211. “I like solitary pursuits such as reading or pottering about in the garden.” – Hayley Mills
212. “I loved to get all dusty, and ride horses, and plant potatoes and cotton.” – Dorothy Malone
213. “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 in the garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.” – Viggo Mortensen
214. “I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.” – Steve Zahn
215. “My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, , playing poker sometimes, and vegetable gardening—corn, tomatoes, cucumbers. I have a big garden every year.” – Emanuel Steward
216. “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
217. “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
218. “As I grew steadily more comfortable in the , 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.” – Michael Pollan
219. “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
220. “I am so longing to be domestic—cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.” – Eve Best
221. “If I’m in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge—l’art d’accommoder les restes—it means gardening.” – Christian Louboutin
222. “Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.” – Dixie Lee Ray
223. “A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.” – Michael Pollan
224. “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
225. “Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
226. “What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
227. “When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.” – Ramakrishna
228. “In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.” – Alice Walker
229. “A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.” – Letitia Elizabeth Landon