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I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
Sep 30, 2025
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot
I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.
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.
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
Garden as though you will live forever.
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy
A good garden may have some weeds.
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 don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
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.
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 also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.
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.
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
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.
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.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
We must cultivate our own garden.
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.
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.
I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.
Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
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.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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?
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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?