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Garden Sayings
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"Only God can make a tree, but I'm in charge of seeds and weeds!"
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"You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt."
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"He who plants a tree, plants a hope"
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"Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun"
--K. Gibran
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"Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow"
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"One year to seed; seven to weed"
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"What was Paradise? but a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs,
full of pleasure and nothing there but delights"
--William Lawson
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"He who makes a garden works hand in hand with God"
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"I plant the seed,
You make it grow.
You send the rain,
I work the hoe"
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"Flowers are Gods way of smiling"
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"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
 --Marcel Proust
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"If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn"
--Andrew V. Mason
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"I have never had so many good ideas day after day
as when I worked in the garden"
--John Erskine
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"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind"
--Anonymous
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"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant."
--Anne Bradstreet
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"In all things of nature there is something marvelous."
 --Aristotle
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"The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies." --Gertrude
Jekyll
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"Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's"
--Mary Cantwell
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"I know a little garden close.  Set thickly with lily and red rose.
Where I would wander if I might.  From dewy morn to dewy night.
--William Morris
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"Shed no tear - O, shed no tear!  The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more - O, weep no more!  Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
--John Keats
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"There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments."
--Janet Kilburn Phillips
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"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul."
--The Koran
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"A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul."
--Sadi
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"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity."
--John Ruskin
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"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends."
--Kozuko Okakura
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"There is more pleasure in making a garden than in contemplating a paradise."
--Anne Scott-James
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"Ah Sunflowers, weary of Time.  Who countest the steps of the sun;
seeking after that sweet golden clime where the traveller's journey is done...
--William Blake
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"As is the garden such is the gardener.
A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds."
--Francis Bacon
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"The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee,
a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy."
--Emily Dickenson
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"And when thou art weary, I'll find thee a bed of mosses
and flowers to pillow thy head..."
--John Keats
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"All that in this delightfull Gardin growes,
should happie be, and have immortall blis."
--Edmund Spenser
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"Flowers are beautiful hieroglyphics of nature,
with which she indicates how much she loves us."
--Wolfgang von Geothe
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"Behind every flower stands God."
--Japanese Proverb
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"Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil"
--Reginald Heber
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"The man who has planted a garden feels
that he has done something for the good of the world"
--Vita Sackville-West
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"Gardening is the purest of human pleasures"
--Francis Bacon
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"The garden is the poor man's apothecary"
--German
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"When gardening, I have one gift
You won't find in any manuals--
I know it's strange, but I can change
Perennials to annuals."
--Dick Emmons (in the Wall Street Journal)
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"The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose."
--William Wordsworth
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"That God once loved a garden
We learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring
I well can credit it."
--Winifred Mary Letts
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"A man does not plant a tree for himself, he plants it for posterity."
--Alexander Smith
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"The Amen of Nature is always a flower"
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"Old Gardeners Never Die, They Just Go To Seed!"
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" I'm Not Aging, I Just Need Re-Potting!"
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"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."
--Rudyard Kipling
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"The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air...than in the hand."
--Francis Bacon
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"A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look
and to wait, more instruction than a library."
--Henri Frederic Amiel, The Private Journal of Henri Frederic Amiel
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" A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb."
--Joseph W. Beach, Meek Americans
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"I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God
it would be in a garden at the cool of the day."
--F. Frankfort Moore, A Garden of Peace
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"What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions.
For me, a weed is a plant out of place."
--Donald Culross Peattie, The Flowering Earth
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"A garden is an awful responsibility.
You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it."
--Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden
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"To a gardener there is nothing more exasperating
than a hose that just isn't long enough."
--Cecil Roberts, quoted in the New York Times - May 13, 1951
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"All gardeners know better than other gardeners."
--Chinese Proverb
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"But each spring...a gardening instinct,
sure as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us.
We look about and decide to tame another little bit of ground."
--Lewis Gantt, Crown Hill
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"The love of flowers is really the best teacher of how to grow and understand them."
--Max Schling, Everyman's Garden
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"The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation.
It becomes an obsession."
--Phyllis McGinley, The Province of the Heart
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"If there were nothing else to trouble us,
the fate of the flowers would make us sad."
--John Lancaster Spalding, Aphorisms and Reflections
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"Flowers are restful to look at.
They have neither emotions nor conflicts."
--Sigmund Freud, quoted in the New York Times - May 5, 1956
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" The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends."
--Persian Proverb