When life feels like it has reached a standstill position, there’s no relief from the daily struggles of life, hug a tree to soak in the peace and listen to its whisper to connect to the earth. As fellow garden lovers, the joy in life lies in nurturing the green sanctuaries around us. The trees, flowers, fruits, branches, and barks speak, they listen, they express, they communicate. When you pamper your garden with fertilisers, soil and seeds, they show their gratitude. Don’t believe us? Check this curated collection of beautiful gardening quotes to celebrate the beauty of nature and learn the art of cultivation:
Inspirational Garden Quotes to Soothe the Soul
- Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. —Sigmund Freud
- The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. —Alfred Austin
- The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. ― Michael Pollan
- When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles. ― Horace Walpole
- What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. -Abraham Lincoln
- I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. –Walt Disney
- There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. – Janet Kilburn Phillips
- Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. – May Sarton
- Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade. – Rudyard Kipling
- A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. – Greek proverb
- Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? – Douglas Adams
- No single sort of garden suits everyone. Shut your eyes and dream of the garden you’d most love then open your eyes and start planting. Loved gardens flourish, boring ones are hard work. —Jackie French
- If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. ‘Green fingers’ are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. —Russell Page
- There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colours are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.” —Elizabeth Lawrence
- No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. -Thomas Jefferson
- In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. —Robert Brault
- The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. —Michael Pollan
- Ol’ man Simon, planted a diamond. Grew hisself a garden the likes of none. Sprouts all growin’ comin’ up glowin’ Fruit of jewels all shinin’ in the sun. Colors of the rainbow. See the sun and the rain grow sapphires and rubies on ivory vines, Grapes of jade, just ripenin’ in the shade, just ready for the squeezin’ into green jade wine. -Shel Silverstein
- Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else? —Betsy Cañas Garmon
- The hum of bees is the voice of the garden. —Elizabeth Lawrence
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