"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies." - Gertrude Jekyll
"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
"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all, it teaches entire trust." - Gertrude Jekyll
"Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas." - Elizabeth Murray
"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden." - Thomas Jefferson
"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
"Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is a triumph of hope over experience." - Marina Schinz
"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