35 MEANINGFUL GARDEN QUOTES
Living with Nature Center, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur
Model Miss Angie Tobias
on her Birthday July 21, 2025
Photos by Dr Abe V Rotor
"The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided." —Thomas Moore
“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” — Mahatma Gandhi
Seedlings of Ilang Ilang (Cananga odorata)
"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
Kamote or Sweet Potato (Ipomea batatas)
"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." — Audrey Hepburn
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies." — Gertrude Jekyll
Alugbati or Malabar Spinach (Basella alba) in two views.
"Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years." — Unknown
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." — Chinese Proverb
Seedlings of Caimito (Chrysophyllum cainito)
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." – Abraham Lincoln
“All gardeners know better than other gardeners.” — Chinese Proverb
“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”
— Jean Jacques Rousseau
Talinum or waterleaf (Talinum triangulare), a leafy vegetable.
Talinum or waterleaf (Talinum triangulare), a leafy vegetable.
“When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.” – Minnie Aumonier
“For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.” — Mahatma Gandhi
Seedlings of Anahaw (Livistona rotundifolia)
"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
“The best tool in the garden is the knowledge of a gardener." — Unknown
Flowers of Katuray (Sesbania grandiflora)
"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
"Gardening requires lots of water, most of it in the form of perspiration." — Lou Erickson
Seedlings of Caimito (Chrysophyllum cainito) and acacia (Samanea saman)
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Gardening is the purest of human pleasures." — Francis Bacon
Seedlings of Umbrella Tree (Terminalia catappa)
“Flowers are the music of the ground from earth’s lips spoken without sound.” —Edwin Curran
“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” —Sigmund Freud
Seedlings of Guyabano (Annona muricata)
“Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.” —Georges Bernanos
“Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.” —Myron Kaufmann
“Flowers are the music of the ground from earth’s lips spoken without sound.” —Edwin Curran
Art Workshop in the Garden with Fr Felix and the author playing the violin)
"Show me your garden, and I shall tell you what you are." — Alfred Austin
“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.” —Elizabeth Lawrence
“Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.” —Henry Mitchell
Driftwood resembling the Philippine Eagle
(Pithecophaga jefferyi)
“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino
“Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.” —Georges Bernanos
Ornamental pineapple (Ananas bracteatus)
“Garden as though you will live forever.” – William Kent
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.” – George Eliot
Enshrined bust of Rizal in the Garden
“In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.” —Truman Capote
"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all, it teaches entire trust." - A Treehugger says
Country lass Angie Tobias holds a bountiful harvest of karamay (Phyllanthus acidus).
“A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world.” —Wendell Berry
“In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.” —Robert Brault
"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." – Abraham Lincoln
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures." – Francis Bacon
"The garden year has no beginning and no end." - Elizabeth Lawrence
Acknowledgement with gratitude: Miss Angie Tobias, Internet for quotes ~
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