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Name That Favorite Gardening Quote, or any favorite quote ...

quiltingfox
15 years ago

I am needing some favorite quotes for a woodburning project that I am doing for Christmas. So I would love to hear all your favorite quotes and please list the author of the quote. If you don't know the author then please list "author unknown" after the quote. Here's some I like:

"Life just blooms when your a gardener." author unknown

"One climbs highest who helps another up." author unknown

"The Lord bless you and keep you." Numbers 6:24

If there are websites with quotes would love to hear about them too. And if you know the author for the first 2 quotes above would love to know that too.

Enjoy this post,

quiltingfox

Comments (29)

  • jaleeisa
    15 years ago

    "Love is a flower planted by two." Unknown

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

    "The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses." Hanna Rion

    "You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt." Author Unknown

    Hope these help!

    Kathy

  • Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
    15 years ago

    I just saw this over at the KT Forum, and love it!

    We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.
    Â Calvin Coolidge

    Oh...not to nitpick, but it should be

    "Life just blooms when you're (Short for you are) a gardener." author unknown

  • lindaruzicka
    15 years ago

    this is one that I live by and I don't know the author..

    "LIFE is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, BUT rather to skid in broadside, totally worn out and proclaiming, "WOW WHAT A RIDE!!"

  • luvsgrtdanes
    15 years ago

    "There is no such thing as a green thumb...It's called an aching back and dirty fingernails"

    Author...my dad!

  • rbrady
    15 years ago

    Great thread! I have a few that I love!

    "A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered" Ralph Waldo Emerson

    "What's the use of a house if you don't have a decent planet to put it on?" Henry David Thoreau

    "If there is magic on this planet, it is in the water" Loren Eisley

    Rhonda

  • quiltingfox
    Original Author
    15 years ago

    I am enjoying this thread. And thank you Sue, bad typo on my part, glad you caught it. I look forward to more posts on this thread.

    Best to all and thanks,
    quiltingfox

  • sassybutterfly_2008
    15 years ago

    A cute quote I saw on a garden stone this year was:

    "These aren't really weeds.. just think of them as groundcover!" hehe

    another was

    "I don't remember planting this!"

    :)

    ~Wendy

  • lindaruzicka
    15 years ago

    I have the "I don't remember planting this" stone..seems I must say it alot. My mother bought it for me..."L"

  • janet1_2007
    15 years ago

    I love this!!!! Here is something I have been trying to figure out how to use is a craft project:

    ALL I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LIFE, I LEARNED FROM GARDENING

    1. It's ok to be a late bloomer!
    2. Always try to be outstanding in your field!
    3. Remember it's important to branch out!
    4. People with lawns have mow fun!
    5. You always reap what you sow!
    6. Weed out the annoyances in your life!
    7. Some problems are prennials!
    8. We all have our own row to hoe!

    Aurthor unknown

    If anyone has any suggestions , send them this way, Janet

  • agirlsgirl
    15 years ago

    Here is a few that I found that I liked. I included a link to a search page that has a bunch of sites with quotes,I found that garden digest has an endless amount! :)

    When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too. ~Linda Solegato


    Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993


    God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. ~Author Unknown


    I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
    - Emma Goldman

    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. ~Abram L. Urban


    There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. ~Mirabel Osler


    He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally
    considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small
    compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world
    with a passion for flowers in his soul.
    - Celia Thaxter


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

    Here is a link that might be useful: sites with gardening quotes

  • bakemom_gw
    15 years ago

    You can't always get what you want. But if you try some time you might find you get what you need.

    -Mick Jagger

  • nuthatch_mo
    15 years ago

    1. In every seed sleeps a flower (author unknown)

    1. The Earth laughs in flowers (author unknown)
    2. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses (George Herbert)
    3. There is a smiling summer here, which causes birds ot sing, and sets the bees in motion. (Emily Dickinson)
    4. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all: Flowers in the Summer, Fires in the fall. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
    5. Shed no tear! O shed no tear! The fower will bloom another year. Weep no more! Weep no more! Young buds sleep in the roots white core. (John Keats)
  • graanieb
    15 years ago

    I love these, one of my favorites I've seen:

    GARDEN OF WEEDEN

    with all these rains name sure fits.

    GB

  • plant-one-on-me
    15 years ago

    God made rainy days so gardeners could get housework done--unknown.

    Wish this applied to me...I get collected seeds packaged, make lists of the new seeds I have, and plan on what to plant next year LOL. Kim

  • daffodillady
    15 years ago

    The only difference between a weed and a flower is what someone thinks is pretty-unk
    Its only a weed if its coming up where you dont want it to-unk

  • ollierose
    15 years ago

    This one is kinda long, but I still love it!

    THE GARDEN OF DAILY LIVING
    PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS
    peas of mind, peas of heart, peas of soul
    PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH
    squash gossip, squash indifference, squash grumbling, squash selfishness
    PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE
    lettuce be faithful, lettuce be kind, lettuce be patient, lettuce really love one another
    NO GARDEN IS COMPLETE WITHOUT TURNIPS
    turnip for meetings, turnip for service, turnip to help one another
    WE MUST ALSO INCLUDE THYME
    thyme for each other, thyme for family, thyme for friends
    Water freely with happiness and cultivate with love.
    There will be much fruit in your garden because you reap what you sow.

  • kizzyseeds
    15 years ago

    "My garden will never make me famous,
    I'm a horticultural ignoramus."
    Ogden Nash

    "The Spirit is the Life,
    The Mind is the Builder,
    The Physical is the Result."
    Edgar Cayce

    "After you hit 40, your eyes get worse
    but your ears get better -
    You can't see anything and
    Everything's too loud."
    My Mother

  • graanieb
    13 years ago

    Stumbled upon this one, it's been a while...time to liven it up a bit.

    My dd sent me this one the other day:

    THE KISS OF SUN FOR PARDON
    THE SONG OF THE BIRDS FOR MIRTH
    ONE IS NEARER TO GOD'S HEART IN THE GARDEN
    THAN ANYWHERE ELSE ON EARTH.

    Bea

  • kiddo
    13 years ago

    One of my favorites is:
    Oh adam was a gardener
    and God who made him see's
    that half a proper gardener's work
    is done upon his knees
    By steve Bender

  • booboobolhuis
    13 years ago

    Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

  • mastergarder2003
    13 years ago

    I love this thread, How about this one, I have a sign in my garden and it is wearing out wish I had another one. It say's, Free Weed's Pull your own, so cute it makes people laugh. always catches a eye, and we have one that say's God's signature written in flower's. I just love the one you see everywhere, Live well, laugh often and Love much. One says welcome God Sunshine and Flowers or could put friends. Love the quote's this thread made me chuckle.

  • poisondartfrog
    13 years ago

    Fun stuff. This one sums up my experience every spring:
    "When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant." ~Author Unknown

  • loisthegardener_nc7b
    13 years ago

    "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think." Dorothy Parker

  • loisthegardener_nc7b
    13 years ago

    Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence. -- Henry Mitchell

  • loisthegardener_nc7b
    13 years ago

    "Loam wasn't built in a day."

  • scottrell
    13 years ago

    Life is a garden, DIG IT!

  • quiltingfox
    Original Author
    13 years ago

    Thank you for sharing your gardening quotes with me. They are always fun to read. ;-)

    Best to you,
    Sandra

  • daffodillady
    13 years ago

    FREE WEEDS- pull all you want!!
    FREE WEEDS- pick them all- fresh crop available next week.

  • quiltingfox
    Original Author
    13 years ago

    That's funny daffodillady. I can so relate to that - too many weeds.

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