“Our sea-walled garden, the whole land, is full of weeds.”
William Shakespeare
WeedsNeglect
Gardening Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · GARDENING
Gardening Quotes
Read the best gardening quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dudley Warner, Gertrude Jekyll, Shakespeare, the Bible and more, with timeless words about planting and growing.
“'Tis an unweeded garden, that grows to seed.”
William Shakespeare
WeedsNeglect
“The strawberry grows underneath the nettle, and wholesome berries thrive and ripen best neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.”
William Shakespeare
Companion PlantingStrawberries
“Here's flowers for you; hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram.”
William Shakespeare
HerbsFlowers
“You see, sweet maid, we marry a gentler scion to the wildest stock, and make conceive a bark of baser kind by bud of nobler race.”
William Shakespeare
GraftingPlant Science
“There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.”
William Shakespeare
HerbsLanguage Of Flowers
“Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden.”
William Shakespeare
WeedsSpring
“Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.”
William Shakespeare
SoilWeeds
“And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.”
The Bible (Genesis 2:8)
EdenFaith
“Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind.”
The Bible (Genesis 1:11)
CreationSeeds
“A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 4:12)
LoveSecret Garden
“My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 6:2)
FlowersLove
“For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth.”
The Bible (Isaiah 61:11)
GrowthSpring
“He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord.”
The Bible (Isaiah 51:3)
RestorationEden
“Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.”
The Bible (Jeremiah 29:5)
HomeGrow Your Own
“And they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.”
The Bible (Amos 9:14)
HarvestRestoration
“And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season.”
The Bible (Psalm 1:3)
TreesSeasons
“And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof.”
The Bible (Proverbs 24:31)
NeglectWeeds
“Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof.”
The Bible (Proverbs 27:18)
Fruit TreesReward
“I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 2:5)
OrchardsFruit Trees
“Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it.”
The Bible (Luke 13:8)
Second ChancesCompost
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.”
The Bible (John 15:1)
VinesFaith
“Every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.”
The Bible (John 15:2)
PruningGrowth
“I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 3:6)
TeamworkGrowth
“He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.”
The Bible (2 Corinthians 9:6)
Sowing And ReapingGenerosity