Ok, there were many more I enjoyed. I copied these directly from the sunset magazine freshdirt online site, http://freshdirt.sunset.com/. Thanks again to won-by-her-wits for her wonderful blog which has all these cool links.

I love quotes, garden ones in particular.

Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.
ÂMac Griswold (She is a garden historian who writes for the NY Times and Houghton Mifflin)

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. . . . But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.
ÂThomas Jefferson, 1811

Nature writes. Gardeners edit.
ÂRoger Swain

Color
Magenta is the floral form of original sin.
ÂGertrude Jekyll

Fertilizer
The best fertilizer is the shadow of a man.
ÂIdaho farmer (also said to be an old Chinese proverb)

Japanese style gardening
A Japanese garden is finished when there is nothing left to remove.
ÂCommon saying related by David De Groot of Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection

Bonsai is the art of potbound plants.
ÂBob Denman, Red Pig Tools

Perennials
A perennial is a plant which, had it lived, would have come back to rebloom year after year.
ÂPanayoti Kelaidis, Denver Botanic Garden

Plant breeding
Plant breeding is having a huge knife and cutting away what you don't want.
ÂMaartin Benship, Dutch bulb breeder

Trees
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And few destroyers of trees ever plant any Â
ÂJohn Muir

An apple tree does not grow apples to prove that it is an apple tree; it does it because it is an apple tree.
ÂPhil Williams, 1980

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
ÂAnon

Here is a link that might be useful: cameron's blog - definingyour ome

Glad you are enjoying all the links from the blog. There's so much info (and fun) out there in gardening land!

My garden is based on...

Magenta is the floral form of original sin.
ÂGertrude Jekyll

I enjoyed the quotes, too. After spending my morning digging (err...wrestling) out 3 huge lavender destroyed by rain, I have this one...

Gardening is not for whimps!

Fortunately, my DH finished his 10k run just in time to help me with the largest monster lavender.

My favorite:

When I have money, I buy books and garden supplies. If there is any left, I buy food and clothing.

GRIN...one must have one's priorities in the correct order.

I love the old folksong: hmmmmmmmm
Inch by inch
Row by row
Goin' to make this garden grow
All I need is a rake and a hoe
And a piece of fertile ground

Thanks for the post. Sometimes I have to step back and remember why my hands are dirty!!!!!!

georgeanne

Ohhh, I love these ... and there are so many good ones! Just came across one today attributed to Bertrand Russell:

"I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite."

The one closest to my heart, though, is

"In seeking my mother's garden, I found my own."

Diane

Here's three more, don't know where I picked them up but jotted them down because they struck a chord or they made me smile.

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~ Author unknown

When weeding, the best way to make sure you're removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ~ Author Unknown

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. ~ Author Unknown

Annette

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
ÂAnon
I love that one!!
The only thing that comes to my mind is Dorthy Parker: "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think." I don't think this one counts!!!

Nancy.

I take inspiration from Rudyard Kipling's The Glory of the Garden:

"... such gardens are not made
By singing:--"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
While better men than we go out and start their working lives
At grubbing weeds from gravel-paths with broken dinner-knives

There's not a pair of legs so thin, there's not a head so thick,
There's not a hand so weak and white, nor yet a heart so sick.
But it can find some needful job that's crying to be done...

...half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees."

Nell

Here is a link that might be useful: Notes on the Glory of the Garden -- scroll down

"Never allow the foot to take the path already taken by the eye." Rosemary Verey

and not a gardening quote but one I found recently:

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx

Lovin' this thread! Love the Dorothy Parker quote :-)

bloominganne

Love the quotes! gottagarden I'm afraid mine would have to be:

"with a garden hoe in one hand and a shotgun in the other"!

Here's the one's I have on my fridge.

From a card from my MIL:
I know a little garden close,
Set thick with lily and red rose,
Where I would wander if I might,
From dewy morn to dewy night.
- Wm. Morris

From a postcard from a tomato friend in KY:
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.
- Wm. Blake

Quote from Oscar de la Renta that I cut from the newspaper:
A garden is a lifetime. The only way I will ever be finished is when I'm dead.

And lastly from a fortune cookie:
Your love of gardening will take on a new meaning in your life.
It's not much of a quote, but I still can't believe I got a garden message in a fortune cookie!
Remy

What Christopher Lloyd said:

On one occasion I recall two redoubtable lady gardeners discussing plants together in the nursery. "What an ugly plant!" one of them said. Now, nothing irritated Mr. Lloyd more than the maligning of his favourite plants. From deep within the potting shed something stirred. A voice boomed out: "I'm sure the plant thinks the same about you madam!"

Libby

Lol, Libby I love that one!
The Classic...
"I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times."- Tony Advent from Plant Delights Nursery. I dont buy plants that wont make it here, but I find this quote quite funny.
"Friends dont let Freinds buy annuals"- also from PD Nursery (now this quote I do live by!)

"You know your a gardener when you see the abbreviation 'BS' and you immediatly wonder what rose it is that has Black Spot"- My very own saying ;-)
CMK

I have a couple favorites:

From t-shirts purchased at San Antonio Botanic Garden: 'Compost Happens' and 'Weed 'em and Reap'

From a t-shirt purchased from a flower catalog: 'Life is Simple: Eat Sleep, Garden'

On a neat little sign purchased for $1 at the thrift store: 'Garden, There's Magic in the Dirt'

The sign on my front fence: 'Creating World Peace, One Garden at a Time'

From a sign on my Mothers Fence 'Trespassers Will Be Composted'

My favorite quote isn't garden related but catchy anyway, "This is the kind of grammar up with which I will not put!" -Winston Churchill

Lastly, the quote, from me, that goes in as a footnote on every e-mail I send out, "Never Drink and Drive. Never."

Cheryl

Cheryl, those are some good ones - I might have to make one like the one on your mother's fence!

Here's another one:

"Compost -- because a rind is a terrible thing to waste."

and not about gardening but I signed my work emails with this one:

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Dr. Suess

bloominganne

I've always wanted to paint or etch an old rusty shovel with

Life is a Garden
Dig It!

I saw that on GW, years ago.

Nell

Some of my favorites:

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the
form of perspiration. Lou Erickson

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. Mirabel Osler

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

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. Author Unknown

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

Brenda, thanks for starting this thread...I've loved reading everyone's favorite sayings. Here are two of mine.

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

-- Joyce Kilmer

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent

-- Sam Levenson

Vikki