Great Garden Quotes:

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

source: To Varro, in "Ad Familiares" IX, 4,

topic: Inspirational, Educational, Reading, Inspirational Gardening, Library Books

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

- Luther Burbank

topic: Nature, Flower, Sunshine, Inspirational Gardening, Spring Garden

Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

- Louise Erickson

topic: Garden, Water, Form, Perspiration, Spring Garden

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

- Alfred Austin

topic: Garden, Earth, Return, Garden Love, Great Garden

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

topic: Work, Garden, Occupation, Great Garden

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

- May Sarton

source: May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.66, Open Road Media

topic: Garden, Giving, Essentials, Horticulture, Great Garden

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Art, Garden, Land, Self Sufficiency, Homesteading

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas A. Edison

source: "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

topic: Funny, Life, Motivational, Make Me Feel Better, Makin Money

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

- John Muir

source: Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

topic: Peace, Nature, Sunshine, Beautiful Nature, Journeys And Paths

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Spring, Believe, Cutting, Planting Seeds, Spring Garden

The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.

- Texas Bix Bender

source: Texas Bix Bender (1999). “Don't Throw in the Trowel”, Gramercy Books

topic: Garden, Hands, Clothes, Straw Hats, Old Clothes

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

- Robert Brault

topic: Garden, Joy, Imagine, Planting A Garden, Vegetable Garden

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Country, Garden, Hunters, Planting A Garden, Vegetable Garden

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

source: "Don't give up". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.

topic: Zero, Garden, Thinking, Planting A Garden, Great Garden

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

- William Cowper

topic: Time, Spring, Fall, Spring Garden, October And Fall

I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.

- Curtis Stone

source: Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2012.

topic: Home, Love Is, Garden, Vegetable Garden, Compost

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

- Julia Roberts

topic: Mom, Garden, Time And Love, Great Garden

Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.

- Ken Wilber

topic: Motivational, Garden, Copies, Great Garden

The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!

- David Berg

topic: Garden, Cities, Pyramids, City Parks, Great Garden

The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate whether fried, baked, broiled or even eaten raw will form the foundation of a great garden industry.

- Robert Johnson

topic: Eye, Garden, Joy, Great Garden

It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."

- Phillips Brooks

source: Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

topic: Children, Father, Men, Great Garden

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.

- Thomas Moore

topic: Music, Garden, Soul, Great Garden

And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach conclusions about the vast splendour of its great gardens. They can, if their souls' strings are finely tuned, arrive with much less effort at the feeling of eternity; for everything we do, they may dream. And precisely where our deeds end, theirs begin to bear fruit.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

source: Rainer Maria Rilke (1998). “Diaries of a Young Poet”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Dream, Flower, Moving, Infirmity, Embrace Life