Gardening Quotes

Gardening is not a rational act.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.