Garden QuotesGarden quotes offer a metaphor for life. We plant and nurture the seeds of our dreams, and in the proper season, we harvest our desires. Time spent in gardening is good for the body and the soul. Being in the garden reminds us to be mindful of the weeds that threaten to take over. Consider positive thoughts seeds and negative thoughts weeds. Time spent in the garden keeps us grounded. Nature’s cycles can teach us many lessons. Everything takes time to grow and develop its potential. Are you like a tender seedling or a tree heavy with ripe fruit? I love SARK’s idea to plant “Impossible Gardens”. Make a list of the dreams you think are impossible. Then next to each one, write “I M POSSIBLE”. Your words and thoughts are planting seeds every day of your life. How is your garden growing? If you want a different harvest, simply plant different seeds. You have everything you need to grow a garden to be proud of. Start where you are. You can start with a flower pot and expand. Your potential is absolutely unlimited so bloom where you are planted! He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they’re needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment. Sarah Flower Adams Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. Alfred Austin A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever. Richard Briers A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. Dale Carnegie Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing. Cicero I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. Cicero The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature. Jeff Cox Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. John Erskine A garden is the best alternative therapy. Germaine Greer May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers. Thich Nhat Hanh The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. Lucy Larcom Gardening is a kind of self-prescribed preventative medicine, good for all ills. Sheryl London Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof. Julie Moir Messervy Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas. Elizabeth Murray Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you. Osho There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. Mirabel Osler Harvest the bounty of rich tradition and amazing possibilities. Mary Anne Radmacher In the garden of your days cultivate festivity, play and celebrations. Mary Anne Radmacher The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. Hanna Rion Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. Jim Rohn Plant impossible gardens. Look forward to dreams. Cry during movies. Swing as high as you can on a swing set, by moonlight. Cultivate moods. Do it for love. Take lots of naps. Take moon baths. Giggle with children. Listen to old people. Entertain your inner child. Build a fort with blankets. Get wet. Hug trees. Write love letters. SARK A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. May Sarton Nothing is more the child of art than a garden. Sir Walter Scott In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. Abram L. Urban We must cultivate our garden. Voltaire A flower that is not the prettiest in the garden may yet have the loveliest fragrance. David L. Weatherford My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds. Mel Weldon A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt Whitman Return from Garden Quotes, Seed Quotations and Sayings about Planting to Quotes Listed by Subject
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