Quotes about Gardening

“Gardening is not a rational act.”

“I learned a lot while labouring and gardening. Whenever I feel tired and want to go home while doing TV work, I just think how tough groundworking is.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.”

“If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.”

“As an athlete, if you train your body but don't fuel it the right way, that doesn't make much sense. Adopting a plant-based diet with the right amount of proteins that came from the right places was the way to go. I also just love gardening.”

“Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.”

“I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.”

“Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.”

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”

“In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.”

“A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.”

“I think we put far too much interest in trying to get ten to 20 year olds interested in gardening. I think you should do everything you can to try and get them interested up to the age of 10.”

“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.”

“The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.”

“Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.”

“I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.”

“We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.”

“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.”

“We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise.”