Here’s the best collection of 100 gardening quotes which are inspirational, witty and funny too!
Gardening Quotes
1. Weed it and reap. – Gardening Saying
2. Earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Life‘s a garden — dig it. – Gardening Saying
4. Let nature be in your yard. – Greg Peterson
5. Bloom where you are planted. – Unknown
6. Farming is a profession of hope. – Brian Brett
7. My garden is my favorite teacher. – Betsy Cañas Garmon
8. Gardens are a form of autobiography. – Sydney Eddison
9. Gardeners learn by trowel and error. – Gardening Saying
10. Garden as though you will live forever. – William Kent
11. Life begins the day you start a garden. – Chinese Proverb
12. The garden is the poor man’s apothecary. – German Proverb
13. With fronds like you, who needs anemones. – Gardening Saying
14. My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. – Claude Monet
15. If a tree dies, plant another in its place. – Carl Linnaeus
16. The hum of bees is the voice of the garden. – Elizabeth Lawrence
17. The best fertilizer is the gardener’s shadow. – Unknown
18. When the soil disappears, the soul disappears. – Terri Guillemets
19. All gardeners know better than other gardeners. – Chinese proverb
20. Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts. – Unknown
21. There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. – Janet Kilburn Phillips
22. Flowers grow in inches, but are destroyed by feet. – Gardening Saying
23. For worms, is soil just another day at the office? – Terri Guillemets
24. You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. – Unknown
25. Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. – Russell Page
26. I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. – Robert Brault
27. Old gardeners never die, they just run out of thyme. – Gardening Saying
28. Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. – Terri Guillemets
29. When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside too. – Terri Guillemets
30. Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. – Unknown
31. The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. – Gertrude Jekyll
32. Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. – Thomas Fuller
33. Nothing is more completely the child of Art than a Garden. – Walter Scott
34. God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. – Unknown
35. Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise. – Michael P. Garofalo
36. How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. – Benjamin Disraeli
37. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
38. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. – Margaret Atwood
39. In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. – Robert Brault
40. Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden. – Orson Scott Card
41. A house without a garden or orchard is unfurnished and incomplete. – A. Bronson Alcott
42. In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. – Frank McKinney Hubbard
43. No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. – Hugh Johnson
44. Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. – Zora Neale Hurston
45. The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. – George Bernard Shaw
46. The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. – Hanna Rion
47. Anybody who wants to rule the world should try to rule a garden first. – Gardening Saying
48. Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it. – Ed Wynn
49. In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener. – Robert Rodale
50. The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. – Dalai Lama
51. Gardening requires lots of water, most of it in the form of perspiration. – Lou Erickson
52. We come from the earth.
We return to the earth.
And in between we garden. – Unknown
53. If you are a gardener, you can always put “Plant Manager” on your résumé. – Unknown
54. The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature. – Jeff Cox
55. To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi
56. The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. – Michael Pollan
57. Don’t wear perfume in the garden — unless you want to be pollinated by bees. – Anne Raver
58. What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
59. Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade. – Rudyard Kipling
60. I like gardening — it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. – Alice Sebold
61. I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries. – Novella Carpenter
62. When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. – Minnie Aumonier
63. The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. – Wendell Berry
64. An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up. – Leslie Hall
65. One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. – W.E. Johns
66. I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. – John Erskine
67. I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. – Ruth Stout
68. Can plants be happy? If they get what they need, they thrive — that’s what I know. – Terri Guillemets
69. One of the worst mistakes you can make as a gardener is to think you’re in charge. – Janet Gillespie
70. A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. – May Sarton
71. Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles. – Greg Peterson
72. The home gardener is part scientist, part artist, part philosopher, part ploughman. – John R. Whiting
73. One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. – Dan Bennett
74. Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. – Unknown
75. God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. – Francis Bacon
76. Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. – Douglas William Jerrold
77. Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. – Walt Whitma
78. Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
79. A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. – Greek proverb
80. I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. – Robert Bridges
81. When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved. – Frank Swinnerton
82. Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. – Henry David Thoreau
83. It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. – B.C. Forbes
84. 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
85. I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. – Bill Watterson
86. It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. – Robert Louis Stevenson
87. We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. – Wendell Berry
88. Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
89. A gardener’s best tool is the knowledge from previous seasons. And it can be recorded in a $2 notebook. – Andy Tomolonis
90. If I finish my day with no garden dirt under my fingernails and nothing new learned, it is a day wasted! – Valerie Clague
91. The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. – Abraham Lincoln
92. And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows. – Rudyard Kipling
93. Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful: they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul. – Luther Burbank
94. A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. – Liberty Hyde Bailey
95. I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day. – Robert Brault
96. And I beseech you, forget not to informe yourselfe as dilligently as may be, in things that belong to Gardening. – John Evelyn
97. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. – Allan Armitage
98. Gardening is the silent conversation with nature. – Devang Vibhakar
99. Gardening makes you simple because you’re working directly with the earth. – Devang Vibhakar
100. Creating garden at home makes us share our gratitude towards mother nature. – Devang Vibhakar