Gardening Quotes

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

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?

Use plants to bring life.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

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

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

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.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Garden as though you will live forever.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.