A good garden quote is the perfect way to express your passion about your favorite hobby. You can use these quotes to personalize a garden gift, or post them in a conspicuous place in the garden to let others know what you think about natural gardening.
Print these short gardening quips on a t-shirt, garden tote, or a picture frame for gift giving.
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. –Willa Sibert Cather
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. –Margaret Atwood
Earthworms are the intestines of the soil. –Aristotle
A garden is the best alternative therapy. –Germaine Greer
Nature is not a place to visit, it is home. –Gary Snyder
There is enough in the world for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed. –Frank Buchman
We could have saved the earth, but we were too damn cheap. –Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Use a wood burning kit to engrave one of these garden sayings on your garden fence, or emblazon them onto a decorative placard.
First a howling blizzard woke us. Then the rain came down to soak us. Now, before the eye can focus: Crocus. –Lilja Rogers
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. –Thoreau
Soil is the substance of transformation. –Carol Williams
To dig in one’s own earth, with one’s own spade, does life hold anything better? –Beverly Nichols
It is apparent that no lifetime is long enough in which to explore the resources of a few square yards of ground. –Alice Coats
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food either. –Joseph Wood Krutch
Personalize an organic gardening journal with one of these inspirational garden quotations.
I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He is a creature who digshimself into the earth and leaves the sight of what is on it to usgaping good-for-nothings. He lives buried in the ground. Hebuilds his monument in a heap of compost. If he came into the Garden of Eden, he would sniff excitedly and say: "Good Lord, what humus!" –Karel Capek
There is always something rough and tumble about planting—because with our clumsy implements we must reach down from our atmospheric element into another, down into the darkness of the soil. –Stanley Crawford
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare, or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight. –Gertrude Jekyll
Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings. –Russell Page
Though snails are exceedingly slow, there is one thing I’d like to know. If I outrun ‘em round the yard, how come they beat me to the chard? –Allen Klein
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. –Joseph Addison
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