“I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden.”
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
“The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.”
Thomas Jefferson
PlantsService
“There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle.”
Benjamin Franklin
FarmingMiracles
“Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.”
Jonathan Swift
FarmingFunny
“I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
VegetablesPride
“Each of the girls had a quarter of the little plot to do what she liked with.”
Louisa May Alcott
Kids GardeningSisters
“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
BloomsWonder
“Our England is a garden that is full of stately views, of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues.”
Rudyard Kipling
English GardensGarden Design
“Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
RosesPoetry
“This lime-tree bower my prison!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Garden RetreatPoetry
“I stood tip-toe upon a little hill.”
John Keats
NaturePoetry
“Stumbling on melons, as I pass, ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.”
Andrew Marvell
AbundanceFunny
“The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.”
William Cullen Bryant
AutumnSeasons
“A Bird came down the Walk - he did not know I saw.”
Emily Dickinson
Garden WildlifeBirds
“The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.”
Confucius
NatureWisdom
“Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green; when I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen.”
Mother Goose
LavenderNursery Rhymes
“Here did she fall a tear; here in this place I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace.”
William Shakespeare
HerbsRemembrance
“Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats and pease.”
William Shakespeare
HarvestAbundance
“For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.”
William Shakespeare
HerbsResilience
“Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, with bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers.”
William Shakespeare
WildflowersWeeds
“Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud.”
William Shakespeare
RosesImperfection
“Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.”
The Bible (Genesis 47:23)
SeedsSowing
“And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field.”
The Bible (Exodus 23:16)
HarvestCelebration
“Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 22:9)
Planting RulesVineyards
“When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 24:20)
Sharing The HarvestGenerosity