- 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
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