Garden Quotes

In the course of researching for a garden article, I came across some very nice quotes related to gardening. I guess we could go on forever with these lines but they are so darling to read. Does anyone else have any favorites?
Trish

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. ~Author Unknown


Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees. ~Anne Raver


It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~Sydney Eddison


Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. ~Lindley Karstens, noproblemgarden.com


The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. ~George Bernard Shaw

Here are some I have Sorry I don't have some of the authors

Anybody who wants to rule the world should try to rule a garden first.


To be happy for an hour get drunk.
To be happy for a day kill your pig and eat it.
To be happy for a week get married.
To be happy for a lifetime plant a garden!


We come from the earth
We return to the earth
And in between we garden


The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow


"Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour
Untill you hhave no time to
plant a tree or vine or flower"

_Letters To Country Girls
1853

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Right on Sydney Eddison

Yeah! George Bernard Shaw. A little quote I love is, "Love is the fairest flower in God's garden," and I don't have a clue who wrote it.

Jerrie
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"One is nearer God's heart in a garden, than anywhere else on earth" - so says a plaque I have. I believe it's the last line of a poem.

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. -- Sir James Barrie

"He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower." -- Mary Howitt

"O, happy garden! Whose seclusion deep hath been so friendly to industrious hours; and to soft slumbers, that did gently steep our spirits, carrying with them dreams of flowers." -- William Wordsworth

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

-Buddha

Here are two from Thomas Jefferson...

"The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime short of murder."

"Though an old man, I am a young gardener."