Charles Dudley Warner Garden Quotations

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.

There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.