Gardening Quotes

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

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

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

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?

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Use plants to bring life.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.