Famous Quotes

"A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them."

Liberty Hyde Bailey on Gardening

More quotes about Gardening

• "He plants trees to benefit another generation."

  Caecilius Statius on Gardening

• "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

  Marcus Tullius Cicero on Gardening

• "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Gardening

• "Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get."

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. on Gardening

• "The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."

  George Bernard Shaw on Gardening

More quotes by Liberty Hyde Bailey

• "When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself."

• "My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon."

• "The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset."

• "A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion."

• "A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them."