Garden quotes

All quotes are 140 characters or less, good for tweeting

Quotes are in no particular order

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into~Henry Ward Beecher

I am in love with the green earth~ Charles Lamb

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

In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death~Sam Llewelyn

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done

Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God~ Thomas Jefferson

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers~ Claude Monet

All my hurts my garden spade can heal~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where but in a garden do summer hours pass so quickly?

A good garden may have some weeds~Thomas Fuller

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden~ Robert Southey

Garden as though you will live forever~ William Kent

I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it~David Hobson

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too~ William Cowper

If you eat foods with a long shelf life, you'll have a short shelf life ~ Rees Moerman

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered~Emerson

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into~ Henry Ward Beecher

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it~ Chinese proverb

Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them~Chinese proverb

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today~Indian Proverb

The Earth Laughs in Flowers~Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat~Beverly Nichols

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?~Maurice Maeterlinck

Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow

Though an old man, I am but a young gardener~Thomas Jefferson

All gardeners know better than other gardeners~Chinese Proverb

An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life

Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace

Sometimes the tiniest flowers smell the sweetest~Emilie Barnes

He that plants trees loves others beside himself~Thomas Fuller

Gardening is the best therapy in the world~C.Guest

A garden is a place to feel the beauty of solitude~Bob Barnes

More than anything, I must have flowers, always, always~Claude Monet