Quotes about Gardening

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

“I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.”

“I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.”

“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”

“When I'm outside gardening, it can be so inspiring. I think of words and melodies. It's peaceful. Every singer-songwriter should find something outside of music that makes them as happy as gardening makes me.”

“From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.”

“There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.”

“There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.”

“I like gardening.”

“I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.”

“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”

“I'm really into gardening.”

“When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.”

“I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough.”

“If 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.”

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

“At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.”

“A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.”

“He plants trees to benefit another generation.”

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