Gardening Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

All gardening is landscape painting.

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.

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.

A good garden may have some weeds.

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.

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

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

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