Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. – Thomas Moore
All gardening is landscape painting. – William Kent
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. – Alexander Smith
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. – Luther Burbank
Gardening is not a rational act. – Margaret Atwood
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. – May Sarton
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. – Luther Burbank
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path. – Jean Anouilh
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. – Michael Pollan
Use plants to bring life. – Douglas Wilson
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. – Robert Smithson
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. – Liberty Hyde Bailey
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. – Luis Barragan
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. – Dixie Lee Ray
If a tree dies, plant another in its place. – Carolus Linnaeus
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. – Dogen Zenji
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. – John Harrison
I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. – Dorothy Malone
Garden as though you will live forever. – William Kent
I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good. – Michael Fish
