I think that so many quotes center around the addiction of gardening because whatever color our thumbs may be, we all enjoy digging in the dirt.
Gardening Quotes About the Joy (or Addiction) of Gardening
“An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life.” ~ Cora Lee Bell
“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 production of a garden...though an old man, I am but a young gardener.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“Man was lost and saved in a garden.” ~Pascal
“If you want to be happy for a lifetime, be a gardener.” ~ Chinese Proverb
"God made rainy days so gardeners could get housework done." ~ Anonymous
"A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next." ~ John Evelyn
"We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden." ~ Anonymous
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.” ~ Francis Bacon
Philosophical, Witty and Life Lesson Sayings With Garden and Plant Themes
Gardens can be a great tool for learning life lessons. As you can see from this collection of thought-provoking and sarcastic quotes, I'm not the only one who enjoys what the garden has to teach!
“The more one gardens, the more one learns; and the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows. I suppose the whole of life is like that” ~ Vita Sackville West
“When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always a garden.” ~ Minnie Aumonier
“I prefer to plant, to sow, and to be free.” ~ Voltare
“A garden is never so good as it will be next year.” ~ Thomas Cooper
"A good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The main who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world." ~ Vita Sackville-West
"The soil is the gift of God to the living." ~ Thomas Jefferson
Funny Quotes About Weeds and Garden Care
What garden wouldn't be complete without the battle against weeds? And thus, this collection of gardening quotes would not be complete without a few weed-filled quotes as well.
“Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.” ~ Henry Beard
“There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener." ~ Karel Capek
“The watering of a garden requires as much judgement as the seasoning of a soup.” ~ Helena Ely
"A man should never plant a garden larger than his wife can take care of." ~ T H Everett
"What is a weed? I have heard it said there are sixty definitions. For me, it is a plant out of place." ~ Donald Culross Peattie
"A weed is but an unloved flower." ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone." ~ Author Unknown
These gardening quotes, sayings and proverbs are a fabulous way to dress up a seed swap party, a gardening journal or scrapbook pages for plants and flower pictures.
Angela England - Angela England is a problogger, mother of four (yes I know what causes that), speaker, teacher, labor doula, gardener and so much more.
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