“Orpheus with his lute made trees, and the mountain tops that freeze, bow themselves when he did sing: to his music plants and flowers ever sprung.”
William Shakespeare
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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.
“Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, and Phoebus 'gins arise.”
William Shakespeare
MorningBirds
“Within the infant rind of this small flower poison hath residence and medicine power.”
William Shakespeare
HerbsMedicine
“For women are as roses, whose fair flower being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.”
William Shakespeare
RosesBeauty
“Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.”
The Bible (Genesis 3:18)
WeedsHard Work
“And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.”
The Bible (Genesis 9:20)
VineyardsNew Beginnings
“Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold.”
The Bible (Genesis 26:12)
HarvestBlessing
“Thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.”
The Bible (Leviticus 19:9)
SharingGenerosity
“That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 11:14)
RainHarvest
“Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 7:12)
VineyardsMorning
“And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine.”
The Bible (Isaiah 5:2)
Garden PrepVineyards
“Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?”
The Bible (Isaiah 28:24)
SoilFarming
“For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater.”
The Bible (Isaiah 55:10)
RainGrowth
“And the desolate land shall be tilled.”
The Bible (Ezekiel 36:34)
RestorationSoil
“He shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.”
The Bible (Hosea 14:5)
RootsGrowth
“Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”
The Bible (Matthew 7:16)
FruitWisdom
“Behold, a sower went forth to sow.”
The Bible (Matthew 13:3)
SowingParables
“Let both grow together until the harvest.”
The Bible (Matthew 13:30)
WeedsPatience
“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh.”
The Bible (Matthew 24:32)
Fig TreesSeasons
“And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.”
The Bible (Mark 4:27)
SeedsWonder
“That which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 15:36)
SeedsNew Life
“Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs?”
The Bible (James 3:12)
FruitNature
“The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.”
The Bible (2 Timothy 2:6)
HarvestReward
“Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field.”
The Bible (Isaiah 32:15)
RenewalFaith
“There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon.”
The Bible (Psalm 72:16)
AbundanceSmall Beginnings