Gardening Quotes
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
J. Carter Brown
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Wendell Berry
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
Barbra Streisand
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. Milne
A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
Kage Baker
I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
Adam Ant
Adam and the Ants
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
Beau Bridges
