60+ Gardening Quotes That Will Inspire You Every Season

Read these inspirational gardening quotes to encourage you to grow and love your garden in every season.

60+ Gardening Quotes That Will Inspire You Every Season

If you are a gardener or garden lover, then you just know that gardens are special places.

You and I probably both love enjoying and relaxing in the garden.

A great garden can inspire you, move you, and silence you. Add the wit, humor, and eloquence of quotes by celebrated authors, poets, and fellow gardeners, and you will find enough inspiration to motivate you through every season.

Here are over 60 gardening quotes to inspire you in every season.

Quotes about Gardens

I’ve always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend. —C. Z. Guest

If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. —Robert Brault

A garden is never so good as it will be next year. —Thomas Cooper

When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. —Minnie Aumonier

photo of pink flowers and quote "When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden." Minnie Aumonier

Gardens and children need the same things – patience, love and someone who will never give up on them. —Nicolette Sowder

The philosopher who said that “work well done never needs doing over” never weeded a garden. — Ray D Everson

Gardens are not made / By singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ / And sitting in the shade. —Rudyard Kipling

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. —Marcus Tullius Cicero

No single sort of garden suits everyone. Shut your eyes and dream of the garden you’d most love then open your eyes and start planting. Loved gardens flourish, boring ones are hard work. —Jackie French

Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else? —Betsy Cañas Garmon

Most plants taste better when they’ve had to suffer a little. —Diana Kennedy

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise. —Henry Mitchell

Photo of sky and sunflowers with the quote "Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise" by Henry Mitchell

A garden should make you feel you’ve entered a privileged space—a place not just set apart but reverberant—and it seems to me that to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape. Turn its prose into something near poetry. —Michael Pollan

A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature. —Jeff Cox

A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house. —William Coles

Quotes about Gardeners

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors. —Mary Cantwell

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. —Rumi 

Why try to explain miracles to your children when you can have them plant a garden? —Robert Brault

photo of a child in a raised bed garden and the quote "Why try to explain miracles to your children when you can have them plant a garden?" —Robert Brault

Hope is one of the essential tools of a farmer or gardener. —Amy Stewart

In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener. —Robert Rodale

Old gardeners never die, they just go to seed. —Unknown

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so. —Joseph Joubert

The best medicine for the garden is the gardener. —Jessica Sowards

photo of a gardener pulling a wagon and the quote "The best medicine for the garden is the gardener" by Jessica Sowards, Roots and Refuge

It’s better to be a warrior in the garden, than to be a gardener in the war. —Miyamoto Musashi

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view. —H. Fred Dale

If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener. —J.C. Raulston

photo of garden path flanked by sweet alyssum and quote: If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener. by J.C. Raulston

An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life. —Cora Lea Bell

It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a row of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. —Nathaniel Hawthorne

Gardening Quotes

Life begins the day you start a garden. —Chinese proverb

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. —Francis Bacon

Gardening requires lots of water—most of it in the form of perspiration. —Lou Erickson

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

photo of gardener pulling a wagon and quote: 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. by Lindley Karstens

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. —Mahatma Gandhi

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas. — Elizabeth Murray

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. —Martin Luther

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. —Janet Kilburn Phillips

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. —May Sarton

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. —Alfred Austin

photo of sweet potatoes and a spade in the soil and quote: "The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul." by Alfred Austin

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

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. —Chinese Proverb

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or 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

A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one. —Priyansh Shah

Quotes about Flowers and Flower Gardens

Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound. —Edwin Curran

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. —Henri Matisse

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

What I need most of all are flowers, always, always. —Claude Monet

photo of a dahlia with the quote: "What I need most of all are flowers, always, always." by Claude Monet

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. —Abraham Lincoln

A flower blossoms for its own joy. —Oscar Wilde

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. —Luther Burbank

photo of a pink zinnia and quote: "Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul." by Luther Burbank

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. —Heinrich Heine

Your mind is the garden, your thoughts are the seeds. The harvest can either be flowers or weeds. —William Wordsworth

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it. —Vita Sackville-West

Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots. —Shannon Mullen

Quotations about Seasons in the Garden

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. —Ruth Stout

All things seem possible in May. —Edwin Way Teale

Every spring, like it or not, we are all beginners, all over again. —Dominique Browning

Every gardener knows under the cloak of winter lies a miracle—a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream. —Barbara Winkler

Photo of bulbs planted in small holes in the ground and the text: "Every gardener knows under the cloak of winter lies a miracle—a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream." by Barbara Winkler

A killing frost devastates the heart as well as the garden. —Eleanor Perenyi

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. —Anne Bradstreet

In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. —William Blake

Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring. —Doug Larson

photo of raised garden beds and the text: Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring." by Doug Larson

The garden year has no beginning and no end. —Elizabeth Lawrence

Each moment of the year has its own beauty, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aside from the garden of Eden, man’s great temptation took place when he first received his seed catalog. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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