Garden Quotes

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

~ Sylvia Browne

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'

~ Marilyn Monroe

Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden.

~ Benjamin Percy

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

~ Stephen Gardiner

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

~ Luis Barragán

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

~ C. Z. Guest

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

~ Alfred Austin

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

~ Robert Bridges

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

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

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

~ Francis Cabot Lowell

Garden as though you will live forever.

~ William Kent

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

~ Alice Walker

A good garden may have some weeds.

~ Thomas Fuller

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

~ Thomas Jefferson

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

~ W. H. Davies

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

~ Beau Bridges

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.

~ Andrew Weil

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

~ Nick Cave

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

~ Gertrude Stein

To dwell is to garden.

~ Martin Heidegger

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

~ William Cowper

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

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

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

~ Charlotte Smith

I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots.

~ Anna Getty

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

~ Joseph Addison

I do the gardening.

~ Ken Livingstone

From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.

~ Joel Salatin

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

~ Deborah Moggach

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

~ Jamaica Kincaid

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

~ Ina Garten

When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again.

~ Emilia Fox

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

~ Doris Day

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

~ Miranda Richardson

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

~ Amanda Donohoe

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

~ Penelope Keith

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

~ Hayley Mills

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

~ Alfred De Vigny