Quotes can be uplifting and apt reminders of how we would like to live our lives and provide a new perspective in challenging times giving us a fresh approach that gladdens and enlivens the heart. They seize our attention like pearls of wisdom, creating a moment of lucid clarity that can inspire, motivate, or change our mindset. Reading a line, phrase or excerpt from a famous gardener, author, or other inspiring person affirms our own beliefs and truths that we may have forgotten. The following quotations are some of my favourites. If a quote has no citation, it is unknown or anonymous.
“Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous“
“There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Novice gardeners should allow themselves from the outset the freedom to be as wayward as they want and to follow their instincts.”
Mirabel Osler
“I never promised you a rose garden.”
Traian Basescu
“A rose is an argument. It proclaims the triumph of beauty over brutality, of gentleness over violence, of the ephemeral over the lasting, and of the universal over the particular. The same rose bursts into bloom on the North Cape and in the Sahara desert.“
Alan Meilland
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.
H Fred Hale
“If you can’t keep pets, grow a rose. It will keep you just as busy and be just as good a companion! And it doesn’t bark.”
“Each garden has its own surprise.”
Susan Allan Toth
“There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer’s day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.”
Peter Mayle
“Anyone who has time for drama is not gardening enough.”
“Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, But they will remember the one that managed to change its colour to purple.”
Suzzy Kassem
“In all the recipes for happiness I have ever seen, ‘something to look forward to’ has been given as an important ingredient. Something to look forward to! How rich the gardener, any gardener, is in this particular integrant! For always he [or she] looks forward to something, if it is only the appearance of the red noses of the peonies in the spring or the sharp aromas that fill the air in autumn after the frost has touched the herbage.“
Louise Beebe Wilder,
Evan Dicken
“How lovely the silence of growing things..”
“Take time to smell the roses.”
Proverb
“The agreeable task of culling the beauties of the english Literature, is like entering into a garden richly stocked with fruits and flowers. There is such an endless variety of blossoms on every side- so much to charm the eye, and woo the touch, that he who merely aims at arranging a suitable wreath, is apt to fail.”
Classical cullings 1831
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.”
John Ruskin
“The more I garden the less I know, but the more pleasure I get from it.”
Monty Don
“Gardening, like living, should be fun.“
Christopher Lloyd Writer and gardener
“Won’t you come into my garden? I want my roses to see you“
Richard Sheridan
“Gardens and children need the same things – patience, love and someone who will never give up on them.”
Nicolette Sowder
“Learn to be an observer in all seasons. Every single day, your garden has something new and wonderful to show you.”
“In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.”
Alice Walker
“Even more important than what she gave her garden was what it gave her. In it, she found a sense of calm.”
Kristan Hannah
“There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare, or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.“
Gertrude Jekyll
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anais Nin
Margaret Atwood
“Gardening is not a rational activity.”
“It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth, to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season.”
Kate Morton
“Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
“Gardening is a kind of disease. . . . When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.”
Lewis Gannit American Journalist and author
“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. . . . To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.”
Alice Morse Earle Old Time Gardens
To create a garden is to search for a better world. In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided by a vision of paradise. Whether the result is a horticultural masterpiece or only a modest vegetable patch, it is based on the expectation of a glorious future. This hope for the future is at the heart of all gardening.
Marina Schinz
“Everything in life has to have balance“
Donna Karan
It’s better to plant a 50-cent plant in a $5 hole, than a $5 plant in a 50-cent hole.
Ralph Snodsmith,on the importance of planting correctly.
“Although it appears to be a simple space for recreational or social purposes, the garden contains within itself the means to fulfil the profound need of the human soul to create a paradise on earth”
Helder Carita, -“Portuguese Gardens”.
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
W B Yeats
“This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
Alan Watts
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
“Life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.”
Leonard Nimoy
“The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. ”
Wendell Berry
“Gardens don’t just please the senses, they satisfy ones need for calm, privacy, balance, and stability; they allow one, no matter how weak or disenfranchised, to impose an order on the chaos and govern living things.”
Diane Ackerman
“We all have an idealised picture of the garden that we have carried around in our heads from the moment it became ours and which, I guess, is never the same as the growing reality. Over the years that the garden is coming into being that image carries you forward and inspires you, but when things reach maturity, the cold light of reality can be harsh.”
Monty Don
“It matters not what goal you seek – Its secret here reposes:
you’ve got to dig from week to week – to get results on roses.” Edgar Guest
“Yes, in the poor man’s garden grow
Mary Howitt
Far more than herbs and flowers –
Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind,
And joy for weary hours.”
“A gardener learns to play the hand he’s dealt”
Michael Pollan
“In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes.“
Patience Strong
“Spring flowers are long since gone. Summer’s bloom hangs limp on every terrace. The gardener’s feet drag a bit on the dusty path and the hinge in his back is full of creaks.”
Louise Seymour Jones
Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
Regina Brett 1956 Journalist
“To contemplate roses is to punctuate one’s days with poetry.”
Annie-Sophie Rondeau- The Grand Rose Family
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.”
Alfred Austin
“A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of year.”
William Longgood
Gardener’s Recipe: One part soil, two parts water, and three parts wishful thinking
“Adopt the pace of Nature: her secret is patience.”
“Flowers are not symbols of power. Flowers are too brief, too frail, to elicit much hope of eternity. In truth, flowers are far removed from the human condition and from all human hope. For a moment, in that moment, flowers are simply beautiful.”
Sharman Apt Russell – ‘Anatomy of a Rose the secret lives of flowers’
“When life throws thorns, hunt for roses.“
One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all gardeners get by visiting other people’s gardens. We all have a lot to learn and in every new garden there is a chance of finding inspiration – new flowers, different arrangement or fresh treatment for old subjects. Even if it is a garden you know by heart there are twelve months in the year and every month means a different garden, and the discovery of things unexpected all the rest of the year.
Margery Fish
“Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life”
Alan Tichmarsh
“Gardening is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.”
Jan Struther 1946 A Pocketful of Pebbles
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
“At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair should be messy and your eyes sparkling.”
Shanti
“Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized
Alan Armitage
“I named all my children after flowers. There is Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.”
Bert Williams
“I never promised you a rose garden.”
Traian Basescu
There may be many flowers in a man’s life, but there is only one rose.
“Summer is already better, but the best is autumn. It is mature, reasonable and serious, it glows moderately and not frivolously … It cools down, clears up, makes you reasonable …”
Valentin Finnish writer
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Stanley Horowitz
The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.
Paulo Coelho
Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?
Beatrix Jones Ferrand
“As I leave the garden, I take with me a renewed view. And a quiet soul.”
Jessica Coupe
To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.
Mirabel Osler
Apprentice yourself to nature. Not a day will pass without her opening a new and wondrous world of experience to learn from and enjoy.
Richard W Langer
Martha Stewart
“Gardening is a humbling experience.”
Gardens are a form of autobiography. ”
Sydney Eddison
“I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. ”
Hayley Mills
“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. ”
May Sarton
Any garden demands as much of its maker as he has to give. But I do not need to tell you, if you are a gardener, that no other undertaking will give as great a return for the amount of effort put into it.
Elizabeth Laurence
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
“The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.”
W H Davies
“Life is short and absurd and run through with pain and sorrow. But even in the face of real suffering, gardening can make our days shine with joy.”
Monty Don
“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Nora Ephron
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Edward Bulwer Lytton
There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in one sense there are no breaks or divisions-seed time flows on to flowering time and harvest time; no sooner is one thing dying than another is coming to life.
Susan Hill & Rory Stuart
“All gardeners know better than other gardeners.”
Chinese Proverb
“Play in the dirt. Because life is too short to always have clean fingernails.”
Live each day as if it were your last, and garden as though you will live forever.
Scottish Proverb
Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.
Karel Capek
But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, for winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
John Keats
There are no happier folks than plant lovers and none more generous than those who garden.
E H Wilson
Let us give nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
It was roses, roses all the way.
Robert Browning
Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.
But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose
Anne Bronte
I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.
Sir Peter Smithers
Most of us are too busy gardening to remember the pristine significance of the word, ‘garden’ which comes to us from the Persian, meaning ‘Paradise’.
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Among the many, many things the green thumb knows is the consolation of the compost pile, where nature, ever obliging, redeems this season’s deaths and disasters in the fresh promise of next spring.”
Michael Pollan,
They are not long the days of wine and roses
Ernest Dawson Collected Poems
“As overwhelming as your garden might seem, it boils down to three questions: What do you have to work with, what are you hoping to accomplish, and how do you make it happen?”
Billy Goodnick
“…a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.”
Clive Bell
“Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.”
Matshona Dhliwayo
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
Indian Proverb
I don’t know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice.
Audrey Hepburn
“Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it’s inevitable we’ll respect people.”
“How lovely the silence of growing things..”
Evan Dicken
Zora Neale Hurston
“Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”
The secret of landscapes isn’t creation…It’s maintenance.
Michael Dolan
The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.
Ruth Stout, 1971
And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows
Rudyard Kipling The Glory Of the Garden
Many things grow in the gardens, that were never sown there.
Thomas Fuller Gnomologia 1732
“Flowers make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.”
Luther Burbank
Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?
Beatrix Jones Ferrand
Liz Primeau
“Growing things is a basic element of life, and gardening is a wise instructor in the art of living.”
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
“The intransigence of roses is something we have had to accept and now … I know which are docile and benevolent from those which are headstrong; those that are pliant from those which are pig-headed.”
Mirabel Osler,
“Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. . . . To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.”
Alice Morse Earle, 1851-1911,
“Nurturing, decisive, interfering, cajoling, gardeners are eternal optimists who trust the ways of nature and believe passionately in the idea of improvement.”
Diane Ackerman
“Working in the garden … gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no rush toward accomplishment, no blowing of trumpets. Here is the great mystery of life and growth. Everything is changing, growing, aiming at something, but silently, unboastfully, taking its time.”
Ruth Stout
Starting a garden is the beginning of making a series of mistakes.”
Mirabel Osler
Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.
Henry Mitchell
“If you can’t keep pets, grow a rose. It will keep you just as busy and be just as good a companion! And it doesn’t bark.”
“There’s little risk in becoming overly proud of one’s garden because gardening by its very nature is humbling. It has a way of keeping you on your knees.”
Joanne R Barwick
“It takes a loyal gardener to tend roses.”
Sondra Faye
“Philosophy is inevitably learned in a garden.”
Helen Rutherford Ely
“A garden isn’t meant to be useful. It’s for joy.”
Rumer Godden
“It’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important…People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Flowers make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.”
Luther Burbank
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.
Chinese Proverb
“A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring”
William Cullen Bryant
Flowers in a city are like lipstick on a woman – it just makes you look better to have a little color.
Lady Bird Johnson
I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
“Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.”
Monty Don
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.
John Erskine
“Teaching you how to grow a garden is better than giving you a thousand roses.”
Matshona Dhliwayo
“Just like the rose holds her beauty among the thorns- we can gather our strength from the most unlikely places.”
Christine Evangelou
“A rose is honored for its beauty, not its size.
Matshona Dhiliwayo
The most serious gardening I do would seem very strange to an onlooker, for it involves hours of walking round in circles, apparently doing nothing.
Helen Dillon
“Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.”
Matshona Dhliwayo
“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”
Leo Buscaglia
Some things are more precious because they don’t last long
Oscar Wilde
“Each garden has its own surprise.”
Susan Allan Toth
“Philosophy is inevitably learned in a garden.”
Helen Rutherford 1903
“As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.”
Celia Thaxter – An Island Garden 1894
“With work in the garden care and worry vanish.”
Helen Rutherford Ely – A Women’s Hardy Garden 1903
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I work in the garden.
John Erskine
“One of the best tricks a garden plays is that you never quite remember how it’s going to be, that first day after winter has gone, when you go outside and can stay outside all day fiddling with jobs that aren’t pressing enough to weigh heavily but will nevertheless pay dividends. A garden is made up of a thousand small inventions, but each small act is a defence (defiance even) against a world without anchors or safe harbours.”
Anna Pavord
There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer’s individual response to gardens. For my part, I love all things most gardeners abhor … I like the whole thing to be as wild as possible, so that you have to fight your way through in places .
Edna Walling
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
Indian Proverb
I want real flowers, perennials, which not only grow and change and die, but also rise again and astonish me. A garden shouldn’t just bloom and look pretty; it should develop like the rest of life. Otherwise it, and we live only to be spaded under.
Emma L Roth Schwartz
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. –
Thomas Jefferson
Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Richard B Sheridan
What a lovely thing a rose is!
Arthur Conan Doyle
“Take time to smell the roses.”
English Proverb
“Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.”
William C Bryant
The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.
Persian Proverb
“Failure teaches much more than success.”
Monty Don
“There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.”
Henri Matisse
Which is loveliest in a rose? Its coy beauty when it’s budding, or its splendor when it blows?
George Barlow
The garden runs through our lives like a river through a field, like air in our lungs. The garden does not end in space any more than it does in time. The flowers grow as much in our minds as in the soil. There are very few nights when I do not lie in the dark, everyone else sleeping inside this creaking, bony house, and go through the garden, seeing it with the clarity of a dreamer, taking it to pieces and putting it together again, mending everything in my head.”
Monty Don
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
Leo Buscaglia
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.
“Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.”
Danish Proverb
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
William Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet
“Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.”
Matshona Dhliwayo
“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. ”
Rabindranath Tagore
There may be many flowers in a man’s life, but there is only one rose.
Robert Burns
“Learning how to look is vital in gardening, especially for someone as impatient and haste-driven as me. But the balcony supplied near-endless visual satisfaction; I’d hunt out new growth, watch the light play on the leaves, catch the shadows that fell on the concrete floor. As my father did standing by our kitchen window, I’d observe and make endless mental lists of things that needed to change or growth I’d hope to see while my focus fell soft and heavy. It was near-impossible to do just the one quick job on the balcony. A bit of deadheading leads to watering, to tidying and pottering around until the five minutes initially allocated telescopes into hours and my hands – usually brushed roughly on whatever covers my lower half – are stiff with cold and my mind soothed.”
Alice Vincent
“They are not long, the days of wine and roses.”
Ernest Dowson Collected Poems
To garden, you open your personal space to admit a few, a great many, or thousands of plants which exude charm, pleasure, beauty, oxygen, conversation, friendship, confidence, and other rewards should you succeed in meeting their basic needs. This is why people garden. It can be easy but challenging, and the rewards are priceless.
Tom Clothier
“If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d be picking roses for a lifetime.”
Swedish Proverb
“Flowers make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.”
Luther Burbank
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
WE Johns
“A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.”
Chinese Proverb
“Turn off the news and get into the garden!”
“I used to think people were born with a love for plants and growing things. I now realize that learning to garden is like beginning a new relationship. It is awkward and uncomfortable at the beginning, but once you invest enough time into it, you can’t imagine your life without it.
Sarah Koontz
The only way to be certain the relationship is going to last is to go through hard times and discover that you still want to fight for it. “
“I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Wooly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.”
Alys Fowler
“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ”
Abraham Lincoln
Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.
Jerry Baker
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Gertrude Jekyll
Nature is our greatest teacher
Edna Walling
The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
Vita Sackville-West
The garden must first be prepared in the soul, or else it will not flourish.
English Proverb
Live each day as if it were your last, and garden as though you will live forever.
Scottish Proverb
“You must fail at gardening to master it.”
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I want real flowers, perennials which not only grow and change and die, but also rise again and astonish me. A garden shouldn’t just bloom and look pretty; it should develop like the rest of life. Otherwise it, and we, live only to be spaded under.
Emma L Roth-Schwartz
“Nothing feels like home more than a garden full of gorgeous plants.”
There is no “End” to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.
Mirabel Osler
“The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.”
Paulo Coelho
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
Henri Frederic Amiel
“Housework is for people who don’t know how to garden.”
Be pleased with your real garden, don’t persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap.
Janet Macunovich
“A life filled with love, must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses.”
What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened.
Dorothy Gilman
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare, or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
Gertrude Jekyll
“Take time to smell the roses.”
Proverb
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.”
Isaac Hayes
“True friendship is like a rose, we don’t realize its beauty until it fades.”
“I probably wouldn’t kill so many houseplants if they could scream for food and water the way my pets and children do.”
“I’m not really a career person. I’m a gardener, basically.”
George Harrison
“Truths and roses have thorns about them.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A life filled with love, must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“There’s little risk in becoming overly proud of one’s garden because gardening by its very nature is humbling. It has a way of keeping you on your knees.”
Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.
“Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again.”
“There may be many flowers in one’s life…but only one rose.”
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
“How lovely the silence of growing things..”
Evan Dicken
“Learn from roses; even when trampled they give off perfume, not despair.”
Matshona Dhliwayo
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.
John Evelyn 1666
A book of quotations… can never be complete.
Robert M Hamilton
Di Baker Collection of quotations and images
Title quote by Abdelkader El Djezairi
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