21 Thought Provoking Gardening Quotes

Like most things in life, sometimes you need a little inspiration to get things done. While most days I want to garden, there are some days I wish the plants could water and maintain themselves.

Those are the days I need a little extra push to get up and go outside. Inspirational quotes can help to reignite the passion gardeners have for making food grow and watching flowers bloom.  

Here are 21 of the most thought-provoking gardening quotes.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the Garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. ~ Voltaire

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

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. ~ Michael Pollan

I like gardening — it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. ~Alice Sebold

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments ~ Janet Kilburn Philips

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. ~Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ~Orson Scott Card

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. ~Author Unknown

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. ~Author Unknown

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~Hanna Rion

Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~Sydney Eddison

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~Author Unknown

How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. ~Benjamin Disraeli

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

Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years. ~ Unknown

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. ~ May Sarton

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

The lesson I have thoroughly learned, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. ~Gertrude Jekyll

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