Gardening Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.