A garden is the best alternative therapy.
—Germaine Greer (b.1939) Australia Academic, Journalist, Scholar, Writer
I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.
—Celia Thaxter (1835–94) American Poet, Writer
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
—Claude Monet (1840–1926) French Impressionist painter
God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
The garden is a mirror of the heart
—Indian Proverb
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
—Frances Hodgson Burnett (1879–1958) British Novelist, Playwright
My garden will never make me famous, I’m a horticultural ignoramus.
—Ogden Nash (1902–71) American Writer of Sophisticated Light Verse
May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
—Thich Nhat Hanh (1926–2022) Vietnamese Buddhist Religious Leader, Teacher, Author, Peace Activist
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows
—Doug Larson (1926–2017) American Columnist
A weed is only a misplaced plant
—Unknown
The best fertilizer is the gardener’s shadow.
—Unknown
You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt
—Indian Proverb
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
—May Sarton (1912–95) American Children’s Books Writer, Poet, Novelist
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
—Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) English Gardener, Author, Poet
Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling, for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.
—Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) American Essayist, Novelist
A garden is a friend you can visit any time
—Indian Proverb
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything – except itself.
—May Sarton (1912–95) American Children’s Books Writer, Poet, Novelist
He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.
—Celia Thaxter (1835–94) American Poet, Writer
We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden
—Unknown
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834) British Essayist, Poet
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
As Rosemary is to the spirit, so Lavender is to the soul
—Indian Proverb
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (1821–81) Swiss Moral Philosopher, Poet, Critic
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing:—“Oh, how beautiful!” and sitting in the shade.
—Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) British Children’s Books Writer, Short story, Novelist, Poet, Journalist
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
No garden is without its weeds.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
—Greek Proverb
Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.
—Karel Capek (1890–1938) Czech Novelist, Playwright
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.
—Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007) American Painter Printmaker
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
—Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French Theologian, Musician, Philosopher, Physician
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
—Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American Inventor, Scientist, Entrepreneur
A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting
—Gladys Taber
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
—Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Lawyer
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
—Douglas William Jerrold (1803–57) English Writer, Dramatist, Wit
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
—A. Whitney Brown (b.1952) American Comedian, TV Personality
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
—Laozi (fl.6th Century BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage
She (or he!) who plants a seed beneath the sod and waits to see a plant, elieves in God
—Indian Proverb
If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
—Vincent van Gogh (1853–90) Dutch Painter
Flowers grow in inches, but are destroyed by feet
—Unknown
All gardeners live in beautiful places, because they make them so.
—Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French Writer, Moralist
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
—Chinese Proverb
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden…. It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–64) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.
—Reginald Farrer (1880–1920) English Botanist, Plant-Collector, Writer
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden.
—Abraham Cowley (1618–67) English Poet, Essayist
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt
—Margaret Atwood (b.1939) Canadian Writer, Poet, Critic
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Poet