Garden Inspiration: 200 Famous Quotes from Green-Thumbed Icons

Welcome to our garden oasis of inspiration!Dive into the lush world of garden quotes,where words bloom like flowers and wisdom grows like vines.From timeless classics to modern musings,we've curated a collection that celebrates the beauty,serenity,and joy found within nature's bounty.Whether you're seeking motivation for your green-thumb endeavors or simply craving a moment of botanical reflection,our garden quotes are sure to cultivate inspiration and add a touch of whimsy to your day. 
Garden Quotes: 

1. “Flowers are happy things. ”–P.G.Wodehouse 2. “By plucking her petals,you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”–Rabindranath Tagore 

3. “Gardeners,I think,dream bigger dreams than emperors.”–Mary Cantwell 

4. “A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs,like life itself.”–May Sarton 

5. “Flowers are restful to look at.They have neither emotions nor conflicts.”–Sigmund Freud 

6. “When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy,there is always the garden.”–Minnie Aumonier 

7. “The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”–Dalai Lama 

8. “Use plants to bring life.”–Douglas Wilson 

9. “Weeds are flowers too,once you get to know them.”–A.A.Milne 

10. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses,we must plant more trees.”–George Eliot Garden 

Quotes About Use Plants To Bring Life: 

11. “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”–Greek proverb 

12. “The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.”–Thomas Jefferson 

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

14. “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 

15. “Life begins the day you start a garden.”–Chinese proverb 16. “I want it said of me by those who knew me best,that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”–Abraham Lincoln 

17. “I plant a lot of trees.I am a great believer in planting things for future generations.I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.”–Penelope Keith 

18. “The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt,head in the sun,heart with nature.To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body,but the soul.”–Alfred Austin 

19. “When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy,there is always the garden.”–Minnie Aumonier

20. “Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.”–Author Unknown 

Garden Quotes About Patience: 

21. “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 

22. “A garden is a grand teacher.It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”—Gertrude Jekyll 

 23. “You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows,but you can’t just wait around,you have to water it and take care of it.”–Bootsy Collins 

24. “If you wish to make anything grow,you must understand it,and understand it in a very real sense.‘Green fingers’ are a fact,and a mystery only to the unpracticed.But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.”–Russell Page 

25. “A garden requires patient labor attention.Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.They thrive because someone expended effort on them.”–Liberty Hyde Bailey 26. “Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old,because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.”–Allan Armitage 

27. “The lesson I have thoroughly learnt,and wish to pass on to others,is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.”–Gertrude Jekyll 

28. “The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies,but never grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.”–Gertrude Jekyll 

29. “Plant so your own heart will grow.”–Hafiz 

30. “A life without dreams is like a garden without flowers.”–Unknown Garden Quotes That Are Full Of Life Lessons: 

31. “With just a little drop of kindness,you can water a whole garden.”–Heather Wolf 

32. “The heart is the garden that always has room for the flowers of kindness and friendship to bloom.”–Unknown 

33. “Kind hearts are the gardens,kind thoughts are the roots,kind words are the flowers,kind deeds are the fruits,take care of your garden and keep out the weeds,fill it with sunshine kind words,and kind deeds.”–Unknown 

34. “You are the creator of your own garden.Plant kindness and compassion.Water with love and gratitude.And you will enjoy beauty all the days of your life.”–Julie Parker 

35. “A soul without kindness is like a garden without plants and flowers.”–Debasish Mridha 

36. “As perfume to the flower,so is kindness to speech.”–Katherine Francke 

37. “Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.”–Alfred Austin 

38. “Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit,who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth,and without light nothing flowers.”–May Sarton 

39. “Remember that children, marriages,and flower gardens refect the kind of care they get.”–H.Jackson Brown,Jr. 

40. “A weed is but an unloved flower.”–Ella Wheeler Wilcox 

Garden Quotes To Explore And Share: 

41. “Fertilizer does no good in a heap,but a little spread around work miracles all over.”–Richard Brinsley Sheridan 

42. “If you have a garden and a library,you have everything you need.”–Marcus Tullius Cicero 

43. “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 

44. “Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind,lettuce be thankful,squash selfishness,turnip to help thy neighbor,and always make thyme for loved ones.”–Unknown 

45. “How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.”–Benjamin Disraeli 46. “The flower which is single,need not envy thorns that are numerous.”–Rabindranath Tagore 

47. “The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.”–William Wordsworth 

48. “A good garden may have some weeds.”–Thomas Fuller 

49. “When people will not weed their own minds,they are apt to be overrun by nettles.”–Horace Walpole 

50. “Plants want to grow; they are on your side as long as you are reasonably sensible.”–Anne Wareham Garden Quotes That Will Brighten Your Day:

51. “There are no gardening mistakes,only experiments.”–Janet Kilburn Phillips 

52. “It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth,to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season.”–Kate Morton 

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

54. To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”–Audrey Hepburn 

55. “The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt,head in the sun,heart with nature.To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body,but the soul.”–Alfred Austin 

56. “Planting a garden with food potential is one of the most valuable things we can do.”–Isabell Shipard 

57. “Gardening is how I relax.It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.”–Oscar de la Rentawn 

58. “Always do your best.What you plant now,you will harvest later.”–OG Mandino 

59. My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.”–Claude Monet 

60. “A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul.”–Saadi Garden Quotes To Inspire And Teach: 

61. “Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint,and the soil and sky as canvas.”–Elizabeth Murray 

62. “People are beautifully made just like flowers in the garden!”–Mwanandeke Kindembo 

63. “Your garden is a place where your body and soul can be in dialogue with your surroundings.”–Shoukei Matsumoto 

64. “What people see in a garden is a reflection of what is in their heart.”–Shoukei Matsumoto 

65. In a world full of roses,stand out like a dandelion in the middle of a green,plush lawn!”–June Stoyer 

66. “If I had a rose for every day I thought of her,I would have a garden full.”–Giovannie de Sadeleer 

67. “How beautiful is God’s Garden and yet most people don’t see it.”–Roland R Kemler 

68. The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.”–James Joyce 

69. “There is something divine,something artistic,and something supreme in reading a book in a peaceful garden.”–Mehmet Murat ildan 

70. “True joy blossoms in the garden of inner peace.”–Milan Ljubincic Inspirational Garden Quotes: 

71. “A garden’s beauty never lies in one flower.”–Matshona Dhliwayo 

72. “Nothing is all bad.There are very beautiful flowers in the desert amidst the spikes and thorns.Just don’t let them take over.In the garden of love,there is little room for prickly things.”–Kate McGahan 

73. “If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals,you will never grow a garden.”–Matshona Dhliwayo 

74. “A seed is its own world,a garden is its own universe.”–Matshona Dhliwayo 

75. “A school of knowledge is located in your backyard garden.”–Bert McCoy 76. “Planting your own garden is better than waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”–Matshona Dhliwayo 

77. “One seed shall not make a garden one plant makes a garden.”–J.Tisa 

78. “I love spring anywhere,but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.”–Ruth Stout 

79. Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh,how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade.”–Rudyard Kipling 

80. “When you increase the number of gardens,you increase the number of heavens too!”–Mehmet Murat ildan 

Beautiful Garden Quotes: 

81. “What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies?”–Roy Rogers 

82. “Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”–William Cowper 

83. “I’ve always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend. ”–C.Z.Guest 

84. “A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. ”–Leitia Elizabeth Landon 

85. “He plants trees to benefit another generation.”–Caecilius Statius 

86. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend,my world.”–Leo Buscaglia 

87. “In search of my mother’s garden,I found my own.”–Alice Walker 

88. “Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”–Walt Whitman 

89. “Well,I do find the beauty in animals.I find beauty everywhere.I find beauty in my garden.”–Doris Day 

90. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”–Pablo Neruda Lifegiving Garden Quotes: 

91. “In the spring,at the end of the day,you should smell like dirt.”–Margaret Atwood 

92. “Behold,my friends,the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun,and we shall soon see the results of their love!”–SItting Bull 

93. “The best place to find God is in a garden.”–George Bernard Shaw 

94. “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”–Douglas Adams

95. “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 

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

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

98. “A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.”-Luis Barragan 

99. “I like gardening – it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.”-Alice Sebold 

100. “If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day,you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”-Bill Watterson Garden Quotes About Life: 

101. "Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field!"—Source Unknown

102. "I don't need therapy; I just need my garden."—Source Unknown 

103. "I'm not anti-social; I'm just pro-garden."—Source Unknown 

104. "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 

105. "Gardeners know all the dirt."—Source Unknown 106. "I don't always garden,but when I do,it's with a glass of wine in my hand."—Source Unknown 

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

108. “All gardeners know better than other gardeners.”—Chinese Proverb 

109. “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”—Unknown 

110. "Why do gardeners make good detectives? Because they have all the dirt."—Source Unknown 

Garden Quotes For Instagram: 

111. "I'm on the hunt for who I've not yet become,in my garden,I will become undone."—Sara Moss-Wolfe 

112. “Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”—Jean Jacques Rousseau 

113. “I’ve always was afraid of gardening.But then I decided to grow a pear.”—Unknown 

114. "Gardening requires lots of water,most of it in the form of perspiration."—Lou Erickson 

115. "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."—Audrey Hepburn 

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

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

118. "Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years."—Unknown 

119. "Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint,and the soil and sky as canvas."—Elizabeth Murray 

120. "In every gardener,there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy."—Robert Brault Home Garden Quotes: 

121. "A garden is a grand teacher.It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all,it teaches entire trust."—Gertrude Jekyll 

122. "The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt,head in the sun,heart with nature.To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body,but the soul."—Alfred Austin 

123. "To see things in the seed,that is genius."—Lao Tzu 

124. "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.The second best time is now."—Chinese Proverb 

125. “The best tool in the garden is the knowledge of a gardener."—Unknown 126. “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”—Mahatma Gandhi 

127. "Gardening is the purest of human pleasures."—Francis Bacon 

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

129. "A garden requires patient labor and attention.Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.They thrive because someone expended effort on them."—Liberty Hyde Bailey 

130. "Show me your garden,and I shall tell you what you are."—Alfred Austin 

Favorite Garden Quotes: 

131. “For me,the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden,or they are branches of the same majestic tree.Therefore,they are equally true,though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.”—Mahatma Gandhi 

132. “No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth,and no culture comparable to that of the garden.”—Thomas Jefferson 

133. “Garden as though you will live forever.”—William Kent 

134. “A garden is to be a world unto itself,it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.”—William Kent 

135. "My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece."—Claude Monet 136. “When I go into my garden with a spade,and dig a bed,I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson 

137. "Flowers are restful to look at.They have neither emotions nor conflicts."—Sigmund Freud 

138. "There are no gardening mistakes,only experiments."—Janet Kilburn Phillips 

139. "If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden."—Robert Brault 

140. "When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy,there is always the garden."—Minnie Aumonier 

Garden Quotes On Doing Things For Others: 

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

142. "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 

143. "The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land."—Abraham Lincoln 

144. "To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower,hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."—William Blake 

145. "We come and go,but the land is always here.And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while."—Willa Cather 

146. "Life begins the day you start a garden."—Chinese Proverb 

147. "Gardens are a form of autobiography."—Sydney Eddison 

148. “Now 'tis spring,and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.”—William Shakespeare 

149. "The moment you plant a seed,you invite the unknown.You break the soil's surface,you crack a piece of the Earth apart,and you send something in.With only faith and hope,you wait to see what will break through the ground.It's a terrifying thought."—Michael Pollan 

150. "The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow."—Unknown Garden Quotes That Will Make Your Day: 

151. “The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.”–Gertrude Jekyll 

152. “I always see gardening as escape,as peace really.If you are angry or troubled,nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.”–Monty Don 

153. “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 

154. “The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt,head in the sun,heart with nature.To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.”–Alfred Austin 

155. “Gardens are not made by singing‘Oh,how beautiful,’and sitting in the shade.”–Rudyard Kipling 156. “I’ve always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.”–C Z Guest 

157. “No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth,and no culture comparable to that of the garden.”–Thomas Jefferson 

158. “We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?”–Wendell Berry 

159. “If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.”–Robert Brault 

160. “A garden is a grand teacher.It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”–Gertrude Jekyll 

Short Garden Quotes: 

161. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”–Pablo Neruda 

162. “Garden as though you will live forever.”–William Kent 

163. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”–Audrey Hepburn 

164. “The more help a person has in the garden,the less it belongs to him.”–W H Davies 

165. “Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.”–George Bernard Shaw 166. “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”–Ralph Waldo Emerson 

167. “In the spring, at the end of the day,you should smell like dirt.”–Margaret Atwood 

168. “Weeds are flowers too,once you get to know them.”–A A Milne 

169. “There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.”–John Steinbeck 

170. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”–William Shakespeare 

Funny Gardening Quotes: 

171. “All gardening is landscape painting.”–William Kent 

172. “The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.”–Monty Don 

173. “In nature,nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.”–Alice Walker 

174. “My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.”–Claude Monet 

175. “Gardening is learning,learning,learning.That’s the fun of them.You’re always learning.”–Helen Mirren 176. “When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy,there is always the garden.”–Minnie Aumonier 

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

178. “The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden.”–Thomas Moore 

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

180. “Use plants to bring life.”–Douglas Wilson Flower Garden Quotes: 

181. “If you have a garden and a library,you have everything you need.”–Marcus Tullius Cicero 

182. “I like gardening – it’s a place where I find myself when I want to lose myself.”–Alice Sebold 

183. “Look deep into nature,and then you will understand everything better.”–Albert Einstein 

184. “The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.”–William Wordsworth 

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

186. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”–Henri Matisse

187. “I don’t like formal gardens.I like wild nature.It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.”–Walt Disney 

188. “But for one’s health as you say,it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.”–Vincent van Gogh 

189. “To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”–Mahatma Gandhi 

190. “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”–Gerard de Nerval More Garden Quotes: 

191. “Deep in their roots,all flowers keep the light.”–Theodore Roethke 

192. “A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it.It just blooms.”–Zen Shin 

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

194. “Earth laughs in flowers.”–Ralph Waldo Emerson 

195. “I want it said of me by those who knew me best,that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”–Abraham Lincoln 

196. “By plucking her petals,you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”–Rabindranath Tagore 

197. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.”–Oscar Wilde

198. “Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”–Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

199. “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 

200. “Gardening is cheaper than therapy – and you get tomatoes.”–unknown

In conclusion,garden quotes serve as poignant reminders of the enduring allure and therapeutic power of nature.As we journey through life,let us heed the wisdom of these timeless phrases and find solace in the beauty that surrounds us.Whether seeking solace in solitude or sharing moments of joy with loved ones amidst the blooms,garden quotes offer a guiding light.So,let these words of wisdom be the seeds that inspire your own garden of dreams,and may your path be forever adorned with the enchanting allure of garden quotes.

By: QuotidianVerse Team.