1. Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. - Dixie Lee Ray 

2. Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. - Anonymous 

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

4. Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. - Thomas Fuller 

5. Nothing is more completely the child of Art than a Garden. - Walter Scott

6. Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod. - Jean Ingelow 

7. God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. - Anonymous

8. Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise. - Michael P. Garofalo 

9. Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

10. The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. - Lillie Langtry 

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

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

13. What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

14. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. - Margaret Atwood 

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

16. A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. - Letitia Elizabeth Landon 

17. My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing. - J. B. Smoove 

18. In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. - Robert Brault 

19. Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. - Orson Scott Card

20. A house without a garden or orchard is unfurnished and incomplete. - A. Bronson Alcott 

21. In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. - Frank McKinney Hubbard 

22. By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. - Rabindranath Tagore 

23. You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. - Pablo Neruda

24. I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening. - Dennis Basso 

25. Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. - Hilarie Burton