30 of the Best Short Gardening Quotes

“Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That’s the fun of them. You’re always learning.” – Helen Mirren
“The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.” – Masanobu Fukuoka
“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” – Lewis Gizzard
“The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.” – Rumi
“Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.” – Robert Breault
“We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really naturing us.” – Jenny Uglow
“I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries.” – Novella Carpenter
“There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.” – Janet Kilburn Phillips
“The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.” – Elizabeth Lawrence
“The modern practice of composting is little more than speeding up and intensifying natural processes.” – Stu Campbell, Let it rot!: the gardener’s guide to composting

“Life begins the day you start a garden.” – Chinese Proverb
“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.” – Gertrude Jekyll
“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.” – May Sarton
“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhii
“Gardening is a work of a lifetime: you never finish.” – Oscar de la Renta
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” – Betsy Garmon
“Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.” – Author Unknown
“Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles.” – Greg Peterson
“The philosopher who said that work well done never needs doing over never weeded a garden.” – Ray D Everson

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We often make gardening more of a chore than it needs to be, making decisions about plant care based on how we think plants will respond.” – Linda Chalker-Scott, How plants work: the science behind the amazing things plants do
“Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.” – Unknown
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”– Greek proverb
“Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors”. – Mary Cantwell
“Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.” – Oscar de la Renta
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Gardening is a humbling experience.” – Martha Stewart
“Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.” – Michael Pollan

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