Gardening Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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