Quotes of Horticulture - somelinesforyou

“ God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ All gardeners live in beautiful places, because they make them so. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. ”

- Charles Dudley Warner

“ I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. ”

- Phyllis Theroux

“ Flowers grow in inches, but are destroyed by feet. ”

- Unknown

“ Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick. ”

- Thomas Adams

“ The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow. ”

- Unknown

“ In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. ”

- Frank McKinney Hubbard

“ Where but in a garden do summer hours pass so quickly. ”

- Unknown

“ A life with love must have some thorns, but a life with no love will have no roses. ”

- Unknown

“ Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. ”

- Unknown

“ Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration. ”

- Lou Erickson

“ It is not enough for a gardener to love flowers; he must also hate weeds. ”

- Unknown

“ The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ All gardening is landscape painting. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Gardening is not a rational act. ”

- Margaret Atwood

“ One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. ”

- Dan Bennett

“ The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. ”

- Gertrude Jekyll

“ You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. ”

- Unknown

“ A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body. ”

- George Herbert

“ The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. ”

- Alfred Austin

“ An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. ”

- Jean Cocteau
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