Quotes about Gardening

“I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding.”

“The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.”

“Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.”

“Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!”

“The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.”

“Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.”

“I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.”

“My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.”

“A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.”