GOODTHOUGHTS GARDEN QUOTES is for everyone who loves digging in the dirt...and caring for the amazing things that grow there. I'll be adding new quotes and pictures... so stop by often.
There's a lot you can learn in a garden and I hope these quotes inspire you...whether you're a master gardener or just a person like me...who never met a flower they didn't like! The photos are from the gardens in our yard. I hope you enjoy them!
Kind hearts are the garden,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the blossoms,
Kind deeds are the fruits.
--John Ruskin
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.--Margaret Atwood
Flowers are words which even a babe may understand.--Bishop Arthur Cleveland
Bloom where you are planted.--Nancy Reader Campion
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. J.M. Barrie
Gardening requires lots of water--most of it in the form of perspiration.--Lou Erickson
A flower is an educated weed.--Luther Burbank
Anything which grows is always more beautiful to look at than anything which is built.--Lin Yu Tang
From the earth we were formed, To the earth we return. And in between, we garden.--Nelson Eddy
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.--Robert Frost
Flowers are loves truest language.--Park Benjamin
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. --Walt Whitman
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.--Chinese Proverb
Gardens are our link with the divine.--William Howard Adams
More in a garden grows than what the gardener sows.--Spanish proverb
God almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. -- Francis Bacon Grow what you love. The love will keep it growing. --Emilie Barnes
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.--Sir Walter Scott
More than anything, I must have flowers, always, always. --Claude Monet
At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous. --Mirabel Osler
A gardener learns more in the mistakes than in the successes. --Barbara Dodge Borland
I am in love with the green earth.--Charles Lamb
No garden is without its weeds.--Thomas Fuller
Nature takes over if the gardener is absent.--Penelope Hobhouse
Who has learned to garden who did not at the same time learn to be patient?
The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.--Phyllis McGinley
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.--Mohandas Gandhi
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for posterity.--Thomas Jefferson
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.--Wordsworth
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.--George Bernard Shaw
Where flowers bloom, so does hope.--Lady Bird Johnson
Who loves plants still his Eden keeps,
Perennial pleasures plants,
and wholesome harvest reaps.-Amos Bronson Alcott
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.--Alfred Austin
The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in a garden,
Than anywhere else on earth.--Dorothy Frances Gurney
We must cultivate our garden.--Voltaire
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 that they have ever done before.
--Vita Sackville-West
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of agriculture is not the production of food, but the perfection of human beings.--Masanobu Fukuoka
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