Quotes about Gardening

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

It is like a mustard seed that a man tossed into his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”

I'd love to have a really flourishing vegetable garden, and I'd love to have a better area for a rose garden or a cutting garden, but I don't. You have to develop a garden in the way that it's meant to be developed.

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

You have the power to water the good seeds and cultivate the good seeds and pull out any weeds that come from seeds you don't want.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Lemon trees, like Italians, seem to be happiest when they are touching one another

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

I have, to fill my mind and occupy my hands, the daily rounds of my economy. I have food to harvest and preserve in the summer and fall, firewood to gather and saw up and split in the fall and winter, the garden to prepare and plant in the spring. I have clothes and bedclothes to wash, and myself to keep clean and presentable. I have the endless little jobs of housekeeping and repair... I have books to read, and much to sit and watch.

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.