Quotes about Gardening

“My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.”

“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”

“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”

“The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.”

“I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.”

“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.”

“We are extremely uncomfortable with the spiritual aspects of gardening, and yet most people feel it in some form or other, even if it's a sense of connection to the greater world on a beautiful day.”

“I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.”

“I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.”

“Gardening always has been an art, essentially.”

“My partner loves gardening and beekeeping and chickens and all that stuff.”

“I've got really into gardening.”

“The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.”

“I keep myself busy, I read a lot, watch a lot of TV, and do a lot of gardening. I do stupid stuff and I love it.”

“I'd love to take up organic vegetable gardening, do anything that involves learning.”

“Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.”

“Gardening is one of my enduring, favourite, and most rewarding pastimes.”

“Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.”

“No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.”

“One of the things we say... is, 'Do what you know helps you.' And so for me, that might be painting. For other people, it might be gardening. It might be baking or cooking. It might be reading.”

“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.”