279 Quotes About Gardening

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.

Who doesn't enjoy a little gardening? As we plant the seeds and remove the weeds we reap a wonderful harvest of blessings. What are the weeds? Anyone or anything that sucks the nutrients from the seeds we have planted. The seeds are our goals, desires, good thoughts and feelings. good works and deeds anything that uplifts us. If we don't keep up on our weeding then our garden will die.

Why would you ever cut the blooms off the rosebush?It was one of the only truly useful things she ever taught me: Stress stimulates growth. Sometimes, in order to make something develop in the right direction, you have to hurt it.

the soil here is harshunwelcomingand half the thingsI lovedo not grow.

You can spend your whole life traveling around the world searching for the Garden of Eden, or you can create it in your backyard.

There's something satisfying about getting your hands in the soil.

Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.

Life is like a garden: it gives you a few things, and you make of them what you can.

We may not have a new roof by then. But we will have flowers. Far more important, wouldn't you agree?