Martha Stewart Quotes

I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

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

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

I'm a gardener, and I love to plant.

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

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

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.

There is no gardening without humility

There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.