Garden & Nature Quotes
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
nature quote by John Muir
There is a calm and certain stay of garden life.
nature quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
A public park is among the greatest gifts one generation can leave for the next. They remind us of where we have been and where we are going. They offer solace for the day, strength for the journey, and a healthy dose of reality for those peculiar moments when we forget that we are but mere men.
nature quote by Theodore Roosebelt
The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.
nature quote by Charles Tomlinson
The garden is the interface between the house and the rest of civilization.
nature quote by Geoffrey Charlesworth
I appreciate the misunderstanding
I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden;
she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass,
and tries to correct the error.
garden & nature quote by Sara Stein,
My Weeds
With innovation and technology, seems we have forgotten to cherish the true beauty the world has to offer.
nature quote by
A.C. Van Cherub
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
garden & nature quote by Rachel Carson
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. garden & nature quote by Albert Einstein
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
nature quote by
Standing Bear
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
nature quote by
John Burroughs
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
nature quote by Galileo
The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.
nature quote - by
Author Unknown
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story.
nature quote by
Linda Hogan
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
nature quote by George Washington Carver
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
nature quote by Walt Whitman
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
nature quote by Lao Tzu
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
garden & nature quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
nature quote -
commonly attributed to Martin Luther
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
than anywhere else on earth.
garden quote by Dorothy Frances Gurney
Earth is here so kind,
that just tickle her with a hoe
and she laughs with a harvest.
garden & nature quote by Douglas William Jerrold
Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
nature quote by Alfred Billings Street
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
garden & nature quote by E.E. cummings
After all, Eden was garden... the garden is a place to go for quiet contemplation, a source not only of food but also of spiritual renewal and intimate contact with life's most basic processes.
gardening quote / saying by Ed Smith,
The Vegetable Gardener's Bible
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.
garden & nature quote by H. Fred Ale
Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.
garden & nature quote by
Linda Solegato
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me.
nature quote by
William Hazlitt
The Amen! of nature is always a flower.
nature quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
nature quote by Alan Hovhaness
In the spring,
at the end of the day,
you should smell like dirt.
garden & nature quote by Margaret Atwood
Nature is my medicine.
garden & nature quote by
Sara Moss-Wolfe
'Just living is not enough,' said the butterfly.
'One must have sunshine, freedom,
and a little flower.'
garden & nature quote by
Hans Christian Andersen
The real voyage of discovery consists
not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes.
garden & nature quote by Marcel Proust
He leaped a fence and saw that all nature was a garden.
nature quote by Horace Walpole
Give me the splendid, silent sun,
with all his beams full dazzling.
garden & nature quote by Walt Whitman
Happiness is a butterfly,
which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
garden & nature quote by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gardening is civil and social,
but it wants the vigor and freedom
of the forest and the outlaw.
garden & nature quote by ~Henry David Thoreau
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
garden & nature quote by Hanna Rion
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.
garden & nature quote by Abram L. Urban
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day,
and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny
with a love that nobody could share or conceive of
who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world
to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil,
or a rose of early peas just peeping forth
sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.
garden & nature quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Mosses from and Old Manse
Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
garden & nature quote by George Cooper
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint,
and the soil and sky as canvas.
quote / saying by Elizabeth Murray
All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.
garden & nature quote by Helen Hayes
Earth laughs in flower.
garden & nature quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me.
So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.
garden & nature quote by Henry Mitchell
I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants,
I have to do as Adam
did in his garden...
name things as I find them.
garden & nature quote by Charles Dudley Warner
There is not a blade of grass that shoots
uninteresting to me.
garden & nature quote by Thomas Jefferson
There is really no such thing as bad weather,
only different kinds of good weather.
garden & nature quote by John Lubbock, Lord Avebury
A weed is a plant
that is not only in the wrong place,
but intends to stay.
garden & nature quote by Sara Stein
The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.
garden & nature quote by Jeff Cox
Most people don't see the sun, soil, bugs,
seeds, plants, moon, water, clouds, and wind the way gardeners do.
garden quote by Jamie Jobb
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity
under
roses and violets and morning dew!
garden & nature quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Almost any garden,
if you see it at just the right moment,
can be confused with paradise.
garden & nature quote by Henry Mitchell
There is not spot of ground,
however arid, bare, or ugly,
that cannot be tamed.
garden & nature quote by Gertrude Jekyll
A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.
garden & nature quote by Richard Briers
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 dreams.
garden & nature quote by Barbara Winkler
I am in love with the green earth.
garden & nature quote by Charles Lamb
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature
with which she indicates how much she loves us.
garden & nature quote by Goethe
A garden is a place
to feel the beauty of solitude.
garden & nature quote by Bob Barnes
Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds
whose seeds are the granary of the birds?
garden quote by Henry David Thoreau
You cannot forget, if you would,
those golden kisses all over the cheeks of the meadow,
queerly called "dandelions."
garden & nature quote by Henry Ward Beecher
Give me odorous at sunrise
a garden of beautiful flowers
where I can walk undisturbed.
garden & nature quote by Walt Whitman
In the end, there is really nothing more important
than taking care of the earth
and letting it take care of you.
garden & nature quote by Charles Scott
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs.
How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening.
It makes it so lifelike.
garden & nature quote by Evelyn Underhill, Letters
All gardening is landscape painting.
garden & nature quote by Horace Walpole (1780)
All through the long winter, I dream of my garden.
On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth.
I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.
garden quote by Helen Hayes
There is no gardening without humility.
Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom
of the class for some egregious blunder.
garden & nature quote by Alfred Austin
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
garden & nature quote by Marcelene Cox
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
garden quote by James Russell Lowell
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.
garden & nature quote by Julie Moir Messervy
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