2015 Gardening Quotations Part 2
Growspiration

Welcome to part 2 of our 2015 Gardening Quotations, or what we like to call “Growspiration”. Enjoy these quotes from the second half of 2015

July

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. --Henri Frederic Amiel
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. -Henri Frederic Amiel

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust

"Where but in a garden do summer hours pass so quickly?" - Anon
Where but in a garden do summer hours pass so quickly? – Anon

"my garden is for me an exercise in memory, a way of remembering my own immediate past, a way of gettimg to a past that is my own, and the past as it is indirectly related to me", jamaica kincaid
My garden is for me an exercise in memory, a way of remembering my own immediate past, a way of getting to a past that is my own, and the past as it is indirectly related to me. – Jamaica Kincaid

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Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. – The Koran

August

"A garden is a friend you can visit any time." - Anon
A garden is a friend you can visit any time. – Anon

“Promises, like gardens need weeding from time to time to produce healthy results.” ― Soul Dancer, Pay Me What I'm Worth
Promises, like gardens need weeding from time to time to produce healthy results. ― Soul Dancer

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I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. -Reginald Farrer

“Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.”  ― Peter Sloterdijk
Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form ‘cultures’ in an uncompromised sense of the word. ― Peter Sloterdijk

September

When your teeth crush an apple, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the season.  -Kablil Gibran
When your teeth crush an apple, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the season. -Kablil Gibran

"We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden." - Anon
We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden. – Anon

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

“Gardens are made of darkness and light entwined.”  ― F.T. McKinstry, Crowharrow
Gardens are made of darkness and light entwined.”  ― F.T. McKinstry, Crowharrow

October

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. -La Rochefoucauld
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. -La Rochefoucauld

"Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste." - William Shakespeare, Richard III; Act 2, Scene 4.
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. – William Shakespeare, Richard III; Act 2, Scene 4

No two gardens are the same.  No two days are the same in one garden. Hugh Johnson
No two gardens are the same.  No two days are the same in one garden. Hugh Johnson

I've learned everything about gardening by trowel and error.  --unknown
I’ve learned everything about gardening by trowel and error. -unknown

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." - Mahatma Gandhi
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi

November

The strongest oak of the forest is not one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds, the rain, and the scorching sun. --Napoleon Hill
The strongest oak of the forest is not one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds, the rain, and the scorching sun. –Napoleon Hill

Who has learned to garden who did not at the same time learn to be patient?" - H.L.V. Fletcher, 1949
Who has learned to garden who did not at the same time learn to be patient? – H.L.V. Fletcher, 1949

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

A garden is never so good as it will be next year - Thomas Cooper
A garden is never so good as it will be next year – Thomas Cooper

December

If I'm ever reborn, I want to be a gardener - there's too much to do for one lifetime! - Karl Foerster, plant breeder and writer, 1874-1970
If I’m ever reborn, I want to be a gardener – there’s too much to do for one lifetime! – Karl Foerster, plant breeder and writer, 1874-1970

However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.  ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
However many years she lived, Mary always felt that ‘she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow’. ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. – William Shakespeare

"God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said ""To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end. God's Garden - Robert Frost"
God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end. God’s Garden – Robert Frost