Ten Most Popular Gardening Quotes
Outdoor flowers and plants are universal signs of spring. And gardening is one of North Americans' favorite leisure activities.
Some gardeners start their plants off from seed, lovingly coddling the plants indoors until it's warm enough for the seedlings to survive outside. Other gardeners wait until the weather is temperate to buy plants that others have started. This is the time of year when all gardeners are becoming restless and watching the weather anxiously.
Here are our top picks for quotes about gardening:
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"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
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"A weed is any plant growing in the wrong place."
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"If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere."
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"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
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"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden."
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"In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it."
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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
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"A garden is half-made when it is well planned. The best gardener is the one who does the most gardening by the winter fire."
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"Earth laughs in flowers."
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"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."
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On the lighter side...
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"Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration."
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"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
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"My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them."
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"Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons."
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