Garden Quotes

If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. ~Audra Foveo

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before. ~Vita Sackville-West

When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves. ~Ken Druse

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

In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from and Old Manse

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

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~Hanna Rion

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is,
I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
~Robert Bridges, "Testament of Beauty"

How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. ~Benjamin Disraeli