Gardening Quotes

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.

A good garden may have some weeds.

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.

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

To dwell is to garden.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

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.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

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

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

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.