Garden Quotes We Love

Sometimes, the love for a garden is indescribable. We love how these authors, writers, gardeners and thinkers were able to put it into eloquent words. Read on to see our favorite quotes about gardening.

“A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.” – Beth Ditto

“There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.” – Janet Kilburn Phillips

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther

“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.” – Rudyard Kipling

“A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.” –  Roberto Burle Marx (after whom many plants are named!)

“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.” -Ruth Stout

“The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is today.” – Eliud Kipchoge

“When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.” – Minnie Aumonier

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Garden as though you will live forever.” – William Kent

“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” – George Eliot

“We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.” – Adolfo Perez Esquivel

“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.” –  Confucius

“The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.” — Jeff Cox

“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.” –  Doug Larson

“Anyone who has time for drama is not gardening enough.” — Anonymous

“My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.” — H. Fred Dale

“Gardening is a work of a lifetime: you never finish.” — Oscar de la Renta

“To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.” — Claude Monet

“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.” Luther Burbank

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” — Audrey Hepburn

“I thought I was pretty cool until I realized plants can eat the sun and poop out air.” — Jim Bugg

Which one’s your favorite? Did we miss any good ones? Comment below, or share with us on social media!