| Gardening requires lots of water; most of it in the form of perspiration. -Lou Erickson |
| To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. -Audrey Hepburn |
| Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. -Lindley Karstens |
| You must fail at gardening to master it. |
| Anyone who has time for drama is not gardening enough. |
| Gardening is the work of a lifetime you never finish. -Oscar De La Renta |
| All gardening is landscape painting. -William Kent |
| Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts. -Mac Griswold |
| In every gardener, there is a child who believes in the seed fairy. |
| The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. -Gertrude Jekyll |
| Gardening: the fine art of soul to soil. -Jan Bills |
| All gardeners know better than other gardeners. -Chinese Proverb |
| An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up. -Leslie Hall |
| My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. -Andrew Weil |
| Gardeners don't get old. They go to pot. |
| I like gardening. It’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. -Alice Sebold |
| I grow plants for many reasons; to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty, or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. -David Hobson |
| Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. |
| Garden as though you will live forever. -William Kent |
| When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. -Minnie Aumonier |
| Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors. -Oscar de la Renta |
| Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. - Lewis Gannit |
| Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. -anonymous |
| Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas. -Elizabeth Murray |