Famous Quotes About gardening

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

A good garden may have some weeds.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

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.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

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.