Kutipan (Quote) - Gardening (1)

He plants trees to benefit another generation.
Caecilius Statius

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
Voltaire

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

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

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

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw

A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney

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

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

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.
May Sarton

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

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

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.
Eric Morecambe

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Roberto Burle Marx

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Orison Swett Marden

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
William Cowper

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
Oscar de la Renta

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
Alexander Smith

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
Stephen Gardiner

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.
D. Elton Trueblood

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.
George Cadbury

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
Alfred Austin

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
Jean Anouilh

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Michael Pollan

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
Robert Smithson

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
Thomas Moore

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. Forbes

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
Roy Rogers

To dwell is to garden.
Martin Heidegger

Gardening is not a rational act.
Margaret Atwood

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
Gertrude Jekyll

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
Charles Dudley Warner

Use plants to bring life.
Douglas Wilson

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.
Suzy Bogguss