- Gardening provides physical and mental benefits such as boosting mood, reducing stress, and encouraging optimism. It allows people to connect with nature and find restoration for their senses. - Gardens are a form of self-expression and allow gardeners to cultivate not just plants, but themselves. Gardening provides joy, exercise for the imagination, and an opportunity to be creative and accomplish things beyond one's expectations. - Different plants feed both the body and soul. Gardens are a place of sanctuary, healing, and making one's personal work of art.

1. Quotes From The Garden

2. Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. Linda Solegato

3. If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. Robert Brault

4. Gardeners are more likely to be organized and optimistic than non-gardeners.

5. The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. Hanna Rion

6. Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else? Betsy CanasGarmon

7. The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. Gertrude Jekyll

8. Don't wear perfume in the garden, unless you want to be pollinated by bees. Anne Raver

9. In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. KozukoOkakura

10. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. Abram L. Urban

11. 20 minutes of gardening a week can boost mood and reduce mental distress.

12. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero

13. Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. Walt Whitman

14. When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. Chinese Proverb

15. Gardeners have to be a combined chemist, botanist, and meteorologist to carry all such information in one’s head and be able to send it forth when visitors pose embarrassing questions. Dr. E.J. Salisbury

16. Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. Gerard de Nerval

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

18. Gardens are a form of autobiography. Sydney Eddison

19. I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. Robert Brault

20. Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. Mrs. C.W. Earle

21. All my hurts my garden spade can heal. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

23. 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

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

25. Flowers really do intoxicate me. Vita Sackville-West

26. You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. Unknown

27. If you pass by the color purple in a field and don't notice it, God gets real pissed off. Alice Walker

28. I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. Henry David Thoreau

29. Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. Russell Page

30. One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. W.E. Johns

31. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because the bushes have roses. Abraham Lincoln

32. Garden as if you will live forever. William Kent

33. Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. John Ruskin

34. Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers also feed the soul. The Koran

35. Without labor nothing prospers. Sophocles

36. When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. Unknown

37. 71% of gardeners do not feel old, compared with 57% of non-gardeners.

38. Trees are your best antiques. Alexander Smith

39. ‘Tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes. William Wordworth

40. I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one. Edna St. Vincent Millay

41. Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things, growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. Lindley Karstens

42. To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this? Beverley Nichols

43. Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

44. Apprentice yourself to nature. Not a day will pass without her opening a new and wondrous world of experience to learn from and enjoy. Richard W. Langer

45. Why try to explain miracles to your kids, when you can just have them plant a garden. Robert Brault

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

47. What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson

48. I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. John Erskine

49. Home gardening is the healthiest and safest form of gardening out there today.

50. My garden is my favorite teacher. Betsy CanasGarmon

51. Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's. Mary Cantwell

52. It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. Lewis Grizzard

53. No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. Hugh Johnson

54. The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before. Vita Sackville-West

55. I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land. Julie MoirMesservy

56. When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves. Ken Druse

57. To pick a flower is so much more satisfying than just observing it, or photographing it ... So in later years, I have grown in my garden as many flowers as possible for children to pick. Anne Scott-James

58. Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, ‘What is that?’ Richardson Wright

59. My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. Claude Monet

60. Every garden is unique with a multitude of choices of soils, plants and themes. Finding your garden theme is as easy as seeing what brings a smile to your face. Teresa Watkins