Garden Quotes


~My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. - H. Fred Ale

~The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. - Hanna Rion

~God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. - Author Unknown

~A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. - Doug Larson

~Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons. - Dave Barry

~I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. - Emma Goldman

~Where flowers bloom so does hope. - Lady Bird Johnson, Public Roads: Where Flowers Bloom

~Take time to smell the roses. - Gardening Cliches

~A flower is an educated weed. - Luther Burbank

~Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. - Heinrich Heine

 

~I didn't plant this! - Author Unknown

~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

~We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. - Abraham Lincoln

~A good garden may have some weeds. - Proverb

~My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread. - Margaret Bourke-White

~All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. - Indian Proverb

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~Give a weed an inch and it will take a yard. - Author Unknown

~No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, no culture comparable to that of the garden ... But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. - Thomas Jefferson, Garden Book, 1811

The Earth Laughs in Flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

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