Gardening Quotes

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.

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

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

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

I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

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.