Famous Proverbs

Lots of quotes and proverbs from great gardeners such as Gertrude Jekyll, and Beverly Nichols who is best remembered for his wondeful gardening books.

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Famous Gardening Proverbs

List Of Proverbs:

• The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats



• One cloud is enough to eclispe all the sun. Thomas Fuller



• No garden is without weeds. Thomas Fuller



• One should cultivate his garden. Voltaire



• The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air...than in the hand



• To create a little flower is the labor of ages. William Blake



• Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe. William Shakespeare



• Harvest comes not every day, though it comes every year. Thomas Fuller



• The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. George Bernard Shaw



• God almighty first planted a garden. Francis Bacon



• Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all gardening is done upon the knees. Rudyard Kipling



• He that plants trees loves others besides himself. Thomas Fuller



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



• It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last years crop. George Elliot



• What a man needs in gardening is a cast iron back with a hinge in it. C.D.Warner



• Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. Rudyard Kipling



• Handle your tools without mittens. Benjamin Franklin



• You can drive out nature with a pitchfork, but she keeps coming back. Horace



• There is no getting blood out of a turnip. Frederick Marryat



• To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. Beverley Nichols


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