Gardening Quotes
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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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.
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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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.
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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.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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.
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Flowers are happy things.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
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The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
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I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
