Say it with flowers! Gardens have made the heart sing in poetry and verse, a natural inspiration since the beginning of time. Find your favorite gardening quotation here.

Many gardeners find gardening to be a profound experience, sometimes even a spiritual one, often worthy of poetry or fine prose. Since the beginning of time, people have been moved to such poetic expression and deep sentiment by their love of nature and gardening. Here you will discover a collection of favorite garden inspired quotes and sayings and lines of poetry selected to encourage you to express yourself by using them in any way you like – from your garden journal to inscriptions on plaques or signs, to adorn a garden shed or garden gate, to grace handwritten note cards or any art or craft project your heart desires. You just might find your perfect saying or long sought quotation right here, but if you don’t, also be sure to check out the list of shorter perhaps more direct (and occasionally humorous) Short Garden Quotes and Sayings: Inspiration, Humor and Wit for Signs and Art and Craft Projects and in Garden Quotes Phrases Quips and Clips as well. Enjoy!

Kiss of the sun for pardon.

Song of the birds for mirth.

You're closer to God's heart in a garden

than any place else on earth. -Dorothy Frances Gurney

"If you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk;

If you want to be happy for three days, get married;

If you want to be happy forever, make a garden. -Chinese Proverb

"Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands." -Japanese saying

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment,

can be confused with paradise. -Henry Mitchell

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. -Anne Bradstreet

In all things of nature there is something marvelous. -Aristotle

Your mind is a garden,

your thoughts are the seeds,

the harvest can be either flowers or weeds.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. -William Wordsworth

To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour.

- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

Kind hearts are the garden,

kind thoughts are the root,

kind words are the blossoms,

kind deeds are the fruit.

"What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place." -Donald Culross Peattie, The Flowering Earth

"To cultivate a garden is to walk with God" -Christian Bovee

"Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps" -Amos Bronson Alcott

Where flowers bloom so does hope. -Lady Bird Johnson

"Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them." -Chinese Proverb

"Won't you come into my garden? I would like my roses to see you." -Richard Sheridan

“As is the garden such is the gardener,

A man’s nature runs either to herbs or to weeds.” –Francis Bacon

We come from the earth,

we return to the earth,

and in between we garden

"When the world wearies

and society ceases to satisfy

There is always the garden." -M. Aumonier

"There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments." -Janet Kilburn Phillips

"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends." -Kozuko Okakura

"And when thou art weary, I'll find thee a bed of mosses

and flowers to pillow thy head..." -John Keats

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