Famous Quotes
- 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.
- Roberto Burle Marx on Gardening
- A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.
- Gertrude Jekyll on Gardening
- A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
- Luis Barragan on Gardening
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey on Gardening
- A good garden may have some weeds.
- Thomas Fuller on Gardening
- A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
- D. Elton Trueblood on Gardening
- A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey on Gardening
- A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
- Doug Larson on Gardening
- All gardening is landscape painting.
- William Kent on Gardening
- But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
- George Cadbury on Gardening
- 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.
- May Sarton on Gardening
- Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
- Luther Burbank on Gardening
- Garden as though you will live forever.
- William Kent on Gardening
- Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.
- Clive Anderson on Gardening
- Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
- Oscar De La Renta on Gardening
- Gardening is not a rational act.
- Margaret Atwood on Gardening
- Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.
- Andrew Weil on Gardening
- Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
- Rudyard Kipling on Gardening
- God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
- Francis Bacon on Gardening
- He plants trees to benefit another generation.
- Caecilius Statius on Gardening
- Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
- May Sarton on Gardening
- How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
- Alexander Smith on Gardening
- I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.
- Andrew Weil on Gardening
- I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.
- Michael Fish on Gardening
- I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
- Martha Smith on Gardening
- I do the gardening.
- Kenneth Robert Livingstone on Gardening
- I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
- Luis Barragan on Gardening
- I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.
- Steven Cojocaru on Gardening
- I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
- Walt Disney on Gardening
- 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.
- 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.
- David Hobson on Gardening
- 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.
- Ken Thompson on Gardening
- I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.
- Elton John on 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.
- Gates McFadden on Gardening
- I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.
- Suzy Bogguss on Gardening
- I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
- Dorothy Malone on Gardening
- 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.
- Penelope Keith on Gardening
- I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.
- I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
- Phyllis Theroux on Gardening
- I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.
- Carolyn Murphy on Gardening
- I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.
- Simon Baker on Gardening
- 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.
- Jane Pauley on Gardening
- If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
- Carolus Linnaeus on Gardening
- If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
- Luther Burbank on Gardening
- If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
- John Harrison on Gardening
- If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Gardening
- In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
- Alice Walker on Gardening
- 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.
- Andrew Weil on Gardening
- It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
- Robert Louis Stevenson on Gardening
- It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
- Orison Swett Marden on Gardening
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