The best quote about gardens to inspire you<\/h2>
I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.<\/strong><\/p> May Sarton (1912-1996)<\/em><\/p> A garden is never so good as it will be next year<\/strong><\/p> Thomas Cooper (Horticulture Magazine January 1993)<\/em><\/p> ‘A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.’<\/strong><\/p> from Les Mis\u00e9rables by Victor Hugo (1802-1885)<\/em><\/p> Gardening has this embracing quality in that it colours the way you look at the world.<\/strong><\/p> from Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively (1933-)<\/em><\/p> If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.<\/strong><\/p> from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)<\/em><\/p> My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.<\/strong><\/p> Claude Monet (1840-1926)<\/em><\/p> Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?<\/strong><\/p> Henry David Thoreau (1817\u20131862)<\/em><\/p> I have seen women looking at jewellery ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.<\/strong><\/p> from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver (1955-)<\/em><\/p> Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.<\/strong><\/p> Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)<\/em><\/p> If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.<\/strong><\/p> Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC-43BC)<\/em><\/p> He plants trees to benefit another generation.<\/strong><\/p> Caecilius Statius (220BC-167BC)<\/em><\/p> A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule<\/strong><\/p> Michael Pollan (Second Nature 1991)<\/em><\/p> There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon<\/strong>.<\/p> Alice Meynell (1847-1922)<\/em><\/p> Weeding is a delightful occupation, especially after summer rain, when the roots come up clear and clean. One gets to know how many and various are the ways of weeds – as many almost as the moods of human creatures<\/strong><\/p> Gertrude Jekyll (Wood and Garden 1899)<\/em><\/p> One thing that unites all gardeners as they contemplate the compost heap is a belief in reincarnation, at least for plants. <\/strong><\/p> Geoffrey Charlesworth (The Opinionated Gadener 1988)<\/em><\/p> What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.<\/strong><\/p> Charles Dudley Warner (My Summer in a Garden 1871)<\/em><\/p> Who has learned to garden who did not at the same time learn to be patient?<\/strong><\/p> HLV Fletcher (Purest pleasure 1949)<\/em><\/p> Correct handling of flowers refines the personality<\/strong><\/p> Gustie L Herrigel (Zen in the art of Flower Arrangement 1958)<\/em><\/p> There is no doubt whatsoever that I will be outlived by my garlic, and that long after my own genes have been diluted beyond recognition, my bindweed’s genes will be the same genes I left behind in my first, failed garden.<\/strong><\/p> Sara Stein (My Weeds 1988)<\/em><\/p> No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden.<\/strong><\/p> Hugh Johnson (1939 – )<\/em><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n As the famous Roman statesman Cicero once said, ‘if you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.’ Here are a selection of garden quotes to fill you with inspiration for the great outdoors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":39284,"template":"","categories":[1,17],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"4"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/08\/20-great-garden-quotes-to-inspire-you.jpg",1452,968,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/08\/20-great-garden-quotes-to-inspire-you-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/08\/20-great-garden-quotes-to-inspire-you-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/08\/20-great-garden-quotes-to-inspire-you-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/08\/20-great-garden-quotes-to-inspire-you-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/08\/20-great-garden-quotes-to-inspire-you.jpg",1452,968,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/08\/20-great-garden-quotes-to-inspire-you.jpg",1452,968,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"As the famous Roman statesman Cicero once said, 'if you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.' 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