42 Gardening Quotes: Inspirational Words of Wisdom

42 Gardening Quotes Quotes

Bring yourself back ‘down to earth’ with our collection of gardening quotes by various authors and famous figures in the gardening world.

Whether an avid gardener or a novice, there is one thing we green-fingered fellows have in common, and that is our love for nature at its finest.

Gardening is no easy endeavor. When something doesn’t go as planned, perhaps your crop fails, or you find all your lettuces have been terrorized by slugs, it is only an opportunity to learn something new.After months of nurturing, failing, and then trying again, we eventually harvest our first vegetable or watch as seeds flourish into flowers. The sense of accomplishment fills our hearts with pure joy. There is no feeling that can beat it.

Gardening inspires curiosity, calms the mind, and cultivates happiness. So if you haven’t already, get your hands dirty and enjoy what mother nature gave us.

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Inspiring Gardening Quotes

Gardening Wisdom Quotes

Happy Garden Quotes

Published by: Ben Gillison

    Inspiring Garden Quotes

    When you are sad, a garden comforts. When you are humiliated or defeated, a garden consoles. When you are lonely, it offers companionship that is true and lasting. When you are weary, your garden will soothe and refresh you.
Monty Don, Down to Earth

  1. When you are sad, a garden comforts. When you are humiliated or defeated, a garden consoles. When you are lonely, it offers companionship that is true and lasting. When you are weary, your garden will soothe and refresh you.
    Monty Don, Down to Earth
    Comforting
  2. Observing the seasons can inspire patience, telling the age-old story of miraculous death and rebirth. The display combines a man-made, conventional way of telling time with that of nature’s counterpart.
    Anna Potterm, The Flower Fix
    Patience
  3. Have you ever sat – just sat – in your garden, thinking, looking around, taking in the view?
    Chris Young, ‎Royal Horticultural Society (DK Rights) (DK IPL), RHS Encyclopedia of Garden Design
  4. We sense that we are connected with plants at a deep level.
    Fran Sorin, Digging Deep
    Deep
  5. People who love this world, people who pay attention, are gardeners, whether or not they have ever picked up a trowel, because gardening is not just about digging. Or planting for that matter. Gardening is about cherishing. And to cherish, one must be present.
    Terry Hershey, Soul Gardening
    Present Quotes
  6. Growing your own garden is not a novel concept. It is not as though the idea has just been invented, or suddenly become ultra-fashionable. It is real, practical and founded on observing, respecting and emulating nature.
    Carol Klein, ‎Jonathan Buckley, Grow Your Own Garden: How to Propagate All Your Own Plants
    Ideas
  7. Nature is the best of teachers and if we observe how she operates and base our own efforts on what we can learn from her, we stand a good chance of creating beautiful gardens. 
Carol Klein, Making a Garden: Successful gardening by nature's rules

  8. Nature is the best of teachers and if we observe how she operates and base our own efforts on what we can learn from her, we stand a good chance of creating beautiful gardens.
    Carol Klein, Making a Garden
    Learning
  9. Every garden, irrespective of whether it is a crate on top of a barge or parkland surrounding a country mansion, is a personal piece of paradise, tailor-made for the individual.
    Heidi Howcroft, ‎Marianne Majerus, Garden Design
    Unique
  10. For gardening, like music and especially dance, is a performance art, one that exists only in the moment and leaves no permanent fixed expression.
    James van Sweden, ‎Tom Christopher, The Artful Garden
    Inspirational Quotes
  11. The gardener also grows. Your breathing slows and your mind relaxes with every movement of the hoe and trowel. Sweat and soul collide in the garden … with growth as its result. That is when you know it. You are a gardener.
    Jo Brielyn, A Garden of Inspiration
    Breathe
  12. The garden is central to my life; it is a daily therapy.
    Arthur Parkinson, The Flower Yard
    Live Life
  13. GARDENS ARE EXCITING and dynamic places. They play with our emotions, positively influence our sense of wellbeing and connect us to the natural world, creating glorious alchemies of art and science that tap into the bedrock of our cultural existence.
    Ian Hodgson, Great Garden Design
    Influence
  14. The garden is where I was at home – in my element – where I became a gardener, one who ‘gardens’.
    Beth Lynch, Where the Hornbeam Grows
    Home
  15. One can experience wonder and delight in creating a garden, not just because others may admire our accomplishment or because it is inspiring to work successfully with nature to make something beautiful.
    Barbara Burn, The Little Green Book of Gardening Wisdom
    Accomplishment
  16. There is a great sense of achievement in contemplating a garden, or for that matter a house, which is decorated with home-grown blooms.
    Louise Hampden, Gardeners’ World Top Tips
    Achievement
  17. Gardening has the power of drawing away men’s attention from gloomy and even wicked pursuits, and inculcating cheerfulness.
    Dan O’Brien, Gardening – Philosophy for Everyone
    Power
  18. A garden is a nursery for nurturing connection, the soil for cultivation of practical reverence. And its power goes far beyond the garden gate—once you develop a relationship with a little patch of earth, it becomes a seed itself.
    Robin Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
    Relationship
  19. The act, and the art, of gardening restores us to our senses, both literally and figuratively; it propels us away from our screens and into the world. 
Nina Pick, The Gardener Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom

  20. The act, and the art, of gardening restores us to our senses, both literally and figuratively; it propels us away from our screens and into the world.
    Nina Pick, The Gardener Says
    Art Quotes
  21. Gardening Wisdom Quotes

    Its a dirty job, but you will never regret a single day when you're gardening. Michael Abbate , Gardening Eden

  22. Its a dirty job, but you will never regret a single day when you’re gardening.
    Michael Abbate, Gardening Eden
    Regret
  23. Gardening, reading about gardening, and writing about gardening are all one; no one can garden alone.
    Elizabeth Lawrence
    Reading
  24. Writing and gardening, these two ways of rendering the world in rows, have a great deal in common.
    Michael Pollun
    Wisdom
  25. Perhaps above all, gardening gives me the feeling that I am doing something important.
    Jerry Apps, Garden Wisdom
    Feeling
  26. You can’t fight Mother Nature. Always try to work with her at your side.
    Linda Vater, The Elegant and Edible Garden
    Nature
  27. Gardeners are acutely attentive to the deep patterns of natural order, but are also aware that there will always be much lying beyond their vision.
    Richard Bailey, ‎James Forsyth, Strategy
    Vision
  28. You are the gardener of your garden, so you can choose wisely to dream and create consciously the seeds that you would like to plant and enjoy in your garden of life.
    Dorothea Orleen Grant, Enchantment Is Yours
    Enjoy Life
  29. Remember — creating a successful garden is as much about problem solving as it is about artistic vision. Alan Titchmarsh, Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden: Garden Design

  30. Remember — creating a successful garden is as much about problem solving as it is about artistic vision.
    Alan Titchmarsh, Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden
    Successful
  31. One of the great joys of my life has been gardening. It’s a wonderful way to express yourself. To create a garden is to search for a better world.
    TR. William Thomas, The Art of Gardening
    Joy
  32. Every garden, irrespective of whether it is a crate on top of a barge or parkland surrounding a country mansion, is a personal piece of paradise, tailor-made for the individual.
    Heidi Howcroft, ‎Marianne Majerus, Garden Design
    Creativity
  33. And, because gardening is never easy, it offers a challenge; successful accomplishment becomes a triumph over odds and helps build confidence, assurance, and independence.
    Hugh Findlay, Gardening for Health and Happiness
    Challenges
  34. To garden is to be in tune with the passing of time, to sensitize oneself to collective endeavour through acts of caring and doing.
    Karin M. Ekström, Waste Management and Sustainable Consumption
    Action
  35. A caring, faithful, and worshipping humanity is one of the garden’s most important crops.
    June Cotner, Garden Blessings
    Wisdom
  36. Gardens do not simply come to be by nature; they come to be by craft (gardening is a technē).
    C. Dustin, ‎J. Ziegler, Practicing Mortality: Art, Philosophy, and Contemplative Seeing
    Hard Work
  37. To “go back” to nature is not to retreat from culture, but to draw closer to its original source.
    C. Dustin, ‎J. Ziegler, Practicing Mortality: Art, Philosophy, and Contemplative Seeing
    Culture
  38. Many gardeners seem as compelled to share their joy and wisdom as they are their plants.
    Augustus Jenkins Farmer, Deep-Rooted Wisdom
    Sharing
  39. One of the great joys of my life has been gardening. It's a wonderful way to express yourself. To create a garden is to search for a better world.
TR. William Thomas, The Art of Gardening: Design Inspiration and Innovative

  40. One of the great joys of my life has been gardening. It’s a wonderful way to express yourself. To create a garden is to search for a better world.
    TR. William Thomas, The Art of Gardening
    Enjoy Life
  41. Happy Garden Quotes

    Gardening is a personal endeavor, and whatever makes you happy should be what you do.  Renata Brown, Gardening Lab for Kids: 52 Fun Experiments to Learn, Grow

  42. Gardening is a personal endeavor, and whatever makes you happy should be what you do.
    Renata Brown, Gardening Lab for Kids
    Happiness
  43. Happy gardeners go with the flow and grow plants that like their soil.
    Anna Pavord, The Curious Gardener
    Go With The Flow
  44. I see much joy in my blossoming garden. Every day, it gets more beautiful.
    Dooney Jackson, Snakes in My Garden
    Beauty
  45. I believe we have to fight for our happiness. And I believe it is worth fighting for. We have to protect it and tend to it like a garden—down on our knees, pulling weeds that try to grow and choke it out.
    Heather Land, A Perfect 10
    Believe
  46. Happiness is like a garden: it comes in different shapes, sizes, colours; it grows on different soils, under different weather conditions; it brings different flowers.
    Frank Ra, Lasting happiness
    Flower
  47. My happy place is transforming a parched dead yard into a thriving flower garden as a sanctuary of peace.
    Cary Kelly, The Health Recovery Zone
    Peace Quotes
  48. What's common about our garden of happiness is that it needs to be understood and nurtured, cultivated and loved. Frank Ra, Happiness Formula

  49. What’s common about our garden of happiness is that it needs to be understood and nurtured, cultivated and loved.
    Frank Ra, Happiness Formula
    Love Quotes

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