For some of us, gardening is not all fun and games. It can be difficult to constantly find the energy to keep and maintain a garden, not to mention plan out your strategy for the year. Sticking to the trends, or not growing tired of your own garden can for some be a constant battle. However, there are enormous benefits of gardening, mentally and physically. If you need a pick me up, just take a look at one of these quotes.
Francis Bacon –
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Rudyard Kipling –
Gardens are not made by singing ‘oh how beautiful?’ and sitting in the shade.
C.L.Forni –
No life without difficulties, no garden without weeds.
H.E Bates –
The garden that is finished is dead.
Vincent Van Gogh –
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
Gertrude Jekyll –
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all, it teaches entire trust.
Oscar Wilde –
Keep love in your heart. A life without it, is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Audrey Hepburn –
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
Abraham Lincoln –
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Horace Walpole –
When people will not weed their own mind, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
Rumi –
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
Sigmund Freud –
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
William Wordsworth –
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
Doug Larson –
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill, except for learning how to grow in rows.
Rabindranath Tagore –
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
