Plant carrots in January and you’ll never have to eat carrots.
Author Unknown

Gardens are a form of autobiography.
Sydney Eddison

Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.
Orson Scott Card

How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.
Benjamin Disraeli

No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden.
Hugh Johnson

Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor’s garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.
Dave Barry

Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise.
Michael P. Garafalo

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

Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
Thomas Fuller

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
Alfred Austin

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.
Frank McKinney Hubbard

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.
Elizabeth Murray

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Walt Whitman

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
W.E. Johns

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas William

I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.
John Erskine

A Garden is a Friend You Can Visit Anytime.

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.
Russell Page

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps,
Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
Lewis Gannit

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.
Frank Swinnerton

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.
Author Unknown

Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.
Astrid Alauda

I wish that every player could feel what I’ve felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I’ve received, it’s blown me away. It’s absolutely remarkable.
Mark McGwire

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn.
William Arthur Ward

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
Charles Dudley Warner

The garden is the poor man’s apothecary.
German Proverb

As is the gardener, so is the garden.

The best fertilizer is the gardener’s shadow.
Author Unknown

Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration.
Lou Erickson

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.
Author Unknown

In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.
Sam Llewelyn

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 Ale

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.
Henry Ward Beecher

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
Abram L. Urban

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
Hanna Rion

In my opinion hard core gardeners, like eco-terrorists, some street gangs, and any American militia group itching for a confrontation with the FBI, have forgotten the main idea.
Lindley Karstens

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

When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too.
Linda Solegato