98 Quotes About Gardens

The garden of Dr. Harden was full of sunshine and bosomed with Japanese magnolia trees dropping pink tears over the grass.

Ninety-six percent of songbirds have young that can only eat insects, and 90 percent of these insect species can only feed on native plants.

In our best moments we are no less than a garden, that serves life, not ourselves.

We treat plants like pieces of jewelry, fine dresses, and designer shoes…Instead of celebrating plants as part of the global community, highlighting what each can do for life beyond our own visual pleasure, we focus exclusively on a new leaf color or a new bloom….plants are far more than a visual commodity. Simply put plants are not art. What we do with them, how we honor their life processes as part of creating ecological function—that is art.

Native plants are a threat to an entire Western culture, and an entire industry built foremost on nature as ornamentation for human visual consumption. Native plants represent a gardening paradigm, that instead of focusing solely or primarily on the commercialization of our five senses, explores the deeper issues of why we garden, how we garden and who we garden for.

I just love it. It’s none bare. It’s covered wi’ growin’ things as smells sweet. It’s fair lovely in spring an’ summer when th’ gorse an’ broom an’ heather’s in flower. It smells o’ honey an’ there’s such a lot o’ fresh air—an’ th’ sky looks so high an’ th’ bees an’ skylarks makes such a nice noise hummin’ an’ singin’. Eh! I wouldn’t live away from th’ moor for anythin’.

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.

A visitor to a garden sees the successes, usually. The gardener remembers mistakes and losses, some for a long time, and imagines the garden in a year, and in an unimaginable future.

La pelouse partait de la plage et grimpait sur cinq cents mètres jusqu’à la porte d’entrée, enjambait des cadrans solaires, des sentiers pavés de briques et des jardins flamboyants, atteignait enfin la maison et se brisait contre ses murs, dans une explosion de vigne vierge, comme emportée par son élan