It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

         —Robert Louis Stevenson

Gardens are a form of autobiography.

                       —Sydney Eddison

I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.

                       —Reginald Farrer

How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.            

                  —Benjamin Disraeli

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.

                             —H. Fred Dale

Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration.         

                            —Lou Erickson

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

         —Charles Dudley Warner

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

                           —Mirabel Osler

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

                        —James Douglas

Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.                                 

                          —Marcelene Cox

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

            —George Bernard Shaw