He plants trees to benefit another generation. – Caecilius Statius
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. – Liberty Hyde Bailey
It is like the seed put in the soil – the more one sows, the greater the harvest. – Orison Swett Marden
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. – George Eliot
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. – Francis Bacon
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
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
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. – David Hobson
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. – D. Elton Trueblood
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. – William Cowper
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. – Alfred Austin
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. – Roberto Burle Marx
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. – Gertrude Jekyll
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. – Alfred Austin
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. – Zora Neale Hurston
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. – B. C. Forbes
