10 famous gardening quotes we love
Gardening is good for the soul, but don’t take our word for it. These are our favourite quotes about gardening from an assortment of famous writers, painters and even a couple of presidents.
“As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.” – Francis Bacon
“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.” –Thomas Jefferson
“I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.” –John Erskine
“Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.” –S. Kelley Harrell
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“There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.” –Janet Kilburn Phillips
“Earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Gardening requires lots of water, most of it in the form of perspiration.” – Lou Erickson
“If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. ‘Green fingers’ are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpractised. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.” –Russell Page
“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.” – Claude Monet
“When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.” – Minnie Aumonier
“Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realised.” – Allan Armitage
“Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.” –Eudora Welty
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." – Abraham Lincoln
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