Garden Quotes - 51 Sayings About Flowers, Plants And Gardening

Are you looking for the best garden quotes and sayings about flowers and plants? Then you've come to the right place! Vibrant gardens are oases of beauty, peace and harmony. Their colors, shapes, food and fragrances connect us with nature and increase our awareness of the wonderful diversity of life on earth. Above all, however, gardens fulfill ecological functions. They provide a habitat for numerous animal and plant species and counteract environmental problems such as the species extinction against.

Here I would like to give you a valuable collection of the best, short quotes and words of wisdom about gardening, flowers and plants. Let's go!

My please: Keep in mind that many of the quotes about gardening have been translated into English from other languages. I cannot guarantee that it is the original quote in each case. Therefore, double check them before you share them. If you like and share any of the quotes in the internet, please link this elaborately created collection. Thank you for your support!

The 51 most inspiring quotes about gardens, flowers and plants

Whether allotment garden, vegetable garden, orchard, rose garden, cottage garden or rock garden, whether vegetable garden, garden pond, shrubs, herb snail, compost or English lawn - the garden is the place to be. the trees, flowers and plants in your own green space enrich your life.

In a fast-paced world, they are a Source of deceleration, inspiration and renewalthat reminds us to always appreciate the beauty and wonder of nature. Use the following quotes and sayings now to let your personal appreciation for gardening sprout and grow like a tree.

Garden quotes 1 - 10

1. "The earth laughs in flowers." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
2. "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
3. "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." (Oscar Wilde)
4. "A flower blooming teaches us beauty. Does it not, it teaches us hope." (Chao-Hsiu Chen)
5. "Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it." (Vincent Van Gogh)
6. "Life begins the day you start a garden." (Chinese proverb)
7. "To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat." (Beverly Nichols)
8. "You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming." (Pablo Neruda)
9. "The trees, the shrubs, the plants are the ornament and the garment of the earth." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
10. "Perfumes are the soul of the flowers, you can feel them even in the realm of the shadows." (Joseph Joubert)

Garden quotes 11 - 20

11. "Who fell into the passion of gardening has never been cured." (Karl Foerster)
12. "Change is necessary like the renewal of leaves in spring." (Vincent van Gogh)
13. "Better to take pleasure in a rose than to put its root under a microscope." (Oscar Wilde)
14. "In autumn, the silence arises in the gardens, for which we have no time." (Victor Auburtin)
15. "Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts." (Sigmund Freud)
16. "The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies." (Gertrude Jekyll)
17. "The dumb run, the clever wait, the wise go into the garden." (Rabindranath Tagore)
18. "It is in the still silence of nature where one will find true bliss." (J. J. C. Smart)
19. "Why wait from day to day? There blooms in the garden what may bloom." (Klaus Groth)
20. "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Garden quotes 21 - 30

21. "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." (Mahatma Gandhi)
22. "Flowers and books, the great comforters of the soul." (Emily Dickinson)
23. "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." (Victor Hugo)
24. "Contentment is a quiet garden in which to rest." (Ernst Ferstl)
25. "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." (Albert Camus)
26. "There is a beautiful openness that opens up like a flower, just to smell." (Friedrich von Schlegel)
27. "In the smallest things nature shows its greatest wonders." (Carl von Linné)
28. "Thoughts arise like blossoms." (Hermann Hesse)
29. "To plant a garden is to believe To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." (Audrey Hepburn)
30. "Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower." (John Harrigan)

Tip: By the way, you can train your "green thumb"! For example, use my best tips for Planting a sustainable garden.

Garden quotes 31 - 41

31. "God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures." (Francis Bacon)
32. "Weeds are anything that grow back after weeding." (Mark Twain)
33. "Anything that is against nature will not last in the long run." (Charles Darwin)
34. "In every change, in every falling leaf, there is some pain, some beauty. And that is the way new leaves grow." (Amit Ray)
35. "There are always flowers for those who want to see them." (Henri Matisse)
36. "A garden is not made by sitting in the shade." (Joseph Rudyard Kipling)
37. "He saw nothing but the blue flower and gazed at it for a long time with indescribable tenderness." (Novalis)
38. "Blossom by blossom the spring begins." (Algernon Charles Swinburne)
39. "On a bright summer morning I walk about in the garden. The flowers whisper and speak, but I wander silently." (Heinrich Heine)
40. "Always it's spring and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves." (E.E. Cummings)

Tip: I have also given you a list of quotes for each of the seasons Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter whose changes can be observed particularly well in the garden. You can find them under the respective link.

Garden quotes 41 - 51

41. "Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors." (Oscar de la Renta)
42. "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." (Albert Einstein)
43. "Flowers are the beautiful words and hieroglyphics of Nature, by which she indicates how much she loves us." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
44. "A good garden may have some weeds." (Thomas Fuller)
45. "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)
46. "My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece." (Claude Monet)
47. "No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden." (Thomas Jefferson)
48. "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever." (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
49. "When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited." (Ramakrishna)
50. "Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow." (John Lennon)
51. "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Can you think of any other sayings about gardens, flowers and plants? Then always come up with your ideas in the comments!

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Use the best quotes about gardening as a personal source of inspiration!

Gardens are sources of inspiration, beauty and vitality that enrich us every day and connect us with nature. Whether you're watching the bees in the wildflower corner from your hammock, tending to your fruit and vegetables in the raised bed, watering the flowers or planting another tree - you're in the garden. take every opportunity to enjoy the benefits of your garden and transform it into a vibrant, nature-filled mecca of biodiversity.

I very much hope that these short quotes, sayings and words of wisdom have inspired you, More time outdoors in nature and spend in your own garden paradise.

Finally, here are a few further Blog posts that could help you:

• Natural household remedies to repel wasps
• How to compost correctly!
• Tips for a bird-friendly garden
• The best reasons for a plant-based diet
• Stopping insect extinction - what everyone can do

Do you have any questions, suggestions or other sayings about flowers, plants and gardening that particularly inspire you? Then I look forward to your comments under this collection of quotes.

Stay inspired,

PS: Not all animals in the garden are very popular with us humans. Like you Animal and environmentally friendly pest control and keep them away, you can now find out in the linked blog article.