Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration. – Lou Erickson
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. – Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, 1871
Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. – Author Unknown
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. – Mirabel Osler
Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. – Author Unknown
In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them. – Victoria Glendinning
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. – George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, 193
In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. – Sam Llewelyn
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. – Hanna Rion
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. – Abram L. Urban
It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. – James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane
God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. – Author Unknown
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Gardens are a form of autobiography. – Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993
Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. – Lindley Karstens, noproblemgarden.com
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi
How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. – Benjamin Disraeli
You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. – Author Unknown
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. – Aldo Leopold
