Gardening Quotes

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.

A good garden may have some weeds.

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

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.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

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.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.