Gardening Quotes

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

I do the gardening.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.

I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.

Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable - it would be weeding the strawberries, mowing the grass.

I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built in 1965, and I like gardening.

We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise.

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role.