Gardening Quotes
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I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.
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Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends. There's never a shortage of things to do, no limit to the lessons that can be learned, especially for children, and there's always plenty of credit to go around, even for the mistakes.
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Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life.
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Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.
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The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.
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Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.
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Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.
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Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.
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One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
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Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are considered more expert, if a little pedantic.
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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
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I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.
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People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.
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The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.
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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.
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I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.
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Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.
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I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!
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Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.
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Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.
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How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.
