Gardening Quotes

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

All gardening is landscape painting.

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.

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

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 don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

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

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

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

A good garden may have some weeds.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

Garden as though you will live forever.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

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

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.