Luther Burbank Quotes

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

Consider the rose...The rose is the sweetest smelling flower of all, and it's the most beautiful because it's the most simple, right? But sometimes, you got to clip the rose. You got to cut the rose back, so something sweeter smelling and stronger, and even more beautiful, will grow in its place

The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

Gardening is the instrument of grace.

Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

I love gardens!

I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.

I like weeds and hardy plants.

I like flowers. In my next life, maybe I can be a gardener.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.