Timeless Garden Quotes: To Make You Smile -

Garden quotes are just fun! They bring a smile to all those who have a passion for digging in the dirt and planting things!

These quotes are funny, wise, and insightful, reminding us how special gardening is. Take a look at some great garden quotes from well-known authors and poets.

Garden Quotes To Make You Smile

Gardening is like a storybook. It needs time, effort, and dedication to make something beautiful, but the end results are so worth it.

Make sure to write down your thoughts and plans in your garden journal so one day, you will have your own collection of quotes to share with others and make them smile! It is so fun for others to quote garden quotes!

So, if you are a lover of garden quotes, then some of the following will surely resonate with you and make you smile! ♥

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

~ Gertrude Jekyll

“But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.” –

~ Thomas Jefferson

“The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.”

~ Hanna Rion

colorful wild flowers growing in a field

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need” –

~ Cicero

“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.” –

~ Claude Monet

lovely garden flowers growing in front of a rustic wooden door

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”

~ Abraham lincoln

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

~ Audrey Hepburn

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

~ author unknown

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

~ Thomas Jefferson

“In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.” –

~ Robert Breault

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.””

~A chinese proverb

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.”

~ Liberty Hyde Bailey

“All my hurts my garden spade can heal.”” –

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Garden as though you will live forever..”

~William Kent

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: It is the closest one can come to being present at creation.”

~ Phyllis Theroux

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

~Rudyard Kipling

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

~Margaret Atwood

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

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

~Alice Walker

“All gardening is landscape painting.” –

~William Kent

When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.”

~Minnie Aumonier

“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”” –

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Old gardeners never die, they just go to seed.”

~unknown

I like gardening—it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself”

~Alice Sebold

“A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place but intends to stay.”” –

~Sara Stein

“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden”

~Ruth Stout

daisies in a white vase on a white wooden chair in a garden

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

– Luther Burbank

“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.”” –

~Lady Bird Johnson

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.””

~Oscar Wilde

A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.”

~ Zen Shin

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

~Greek proverb

~B.C. Forbes

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn”” –

The philosopher who said that work well done never needs doing over never weeded a garden.”

~RAY D EVERSON

And, last but not least…..a simple life message from the Bible:

“Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.”

~Jeremiah 29:5

Vegetables before the Big Freeze on a table

A Simple Final Thought…..

While you’re tending to your garden, why not jot down your reflections? One day, you could cultivate your very own garden of quotes to share with others and brighten their day!

Garden Quotes To Make You Smile

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

~ Gertrude Jekyll

“But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.” –

~ Thomas Jefferson

“The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.”

~ Hanna Rion

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need” –

~ Cicero

“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.” –

~ Claude Monet

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”

~ Abraham lincoln

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

~ Audrey Hepburn

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

~ author unknown

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

~ Thomas Jefferson

“In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.” –

~ Robert Breault

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.””

~A chinese proverb

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.”

~ Liberty Hyde Bailey

“All my hurts my garden spade can heal.”” –

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Garden as though you will live forever..”

~William Kent

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: It is the closest one can come to being present at creation.”

~ Phyllis Theroux

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

~Rudyard Kipling

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

~Margaret Atwood

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

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

~Alice Walker

“All gardening is landscape painting.” –

~William Kent

When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.”

~Minnie Aumonier

“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”” –

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Old gardeners never die, they just go to seed.”

~unknown

I like gardening—it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself”

~Alice Sebold

“A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place but intends to stay.”” –

~Sara Stein

“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden”

~Ruth Stout

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

– Luther Burbank

“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.”” –

~Lady Bird Johnson

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.””

~Oscar Wilde

A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.”

~ Zen Shin

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

~Greek proverb

~B.C. Forbes

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn”” –

The philosopher who said that work well done never needs doing over never weeded a garden.”

~RAY D EVERSON

And, last but not least…..a simple life message from the Bible:

“Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.”

~Jeremiah 29:5

A Simple Final Thought…..

Enjoy Your Garden & gardening! ♥

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