10 of the best garden quotes

Need a boost to get out in the garden, come rain or shine? Here, a selection of famous names share their wisdom when it comes to gardening. From authors to painters, these quotes remind us how creative, meditative and restorative gardening can be.

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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in - what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.'

Gardening has this embracing quality in that it colours the way you look at the world.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?

I have seen women looking at jewellery ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.