Gardening 12 Life-Inspiring Garden Quotes to Share Your Love for Gardening By Viveka Neveln Viveka Neveln Instagram Viveka Neveln is the Garden Editor at BHG and a degreed horticulturist with broad gardening expertise earned over 3+ decades of practice and study. She has more than 20 years of experience writing and editing for both print and digital media. Learn about BHG's Editorial Process Updated on October 5, 2022 Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos Share your love of gardening with garden quotes. Find your favorite gardening quote from some of history's most famous gardeners -- who even share some interesting quotes about life as it applies to the garden. 01 of 12 Garden Quotes "I grow plants for many reasons: to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty, or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow." -David Hobson Download this garden quote 02 of 12 Garden Quotes "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are." -Alfred Austin Download this garden quote 03 of 12 Garden 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 Download this garden quote 04 of 12 Garden Quotes "The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies." -Gertrude Jekyll Download this garden quote 05 of 12 Garden Quotes "Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint and the soil and sky as canvas." -Elizabeth Murray Download this garden quote 06 of 12 Garden Quotes "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." -Cicero Download this garden quote 07 of 12 Garden Quotes "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 Download this garden quote 08 of 12 Garden Quotes "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." -Audrey Hepburn Download this garden quote 09 of 12 Garden Quotes "Though an old man, I am but a young gardener." -Thomas Jefferson Download this garden quote 10 of 12 Garden Quotes "A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy." -Luis Barragan Download this garden quote 11 of 12 Garden Quotes "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." -Marcel Proust Download this garden quote 12 of 12 Garden Quotes "Gardening always has been an art, essentially." -Robert Irwin Download this garden quote Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit