Gardening Quotes

If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinthus, for they would feed my soul.

The Koran

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Roses are red, violets are blue;
But they don't get around like the dandelions do.

Slim Acres

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.

Lou Erickson

Don't grumble that roses have thorns, be thankful that thorns have roses.

Author Unknown

I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.

Sir Peter Smithers