Gardening Quotes

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

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.

It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.

A garden always has a point.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.

Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

A garden is a friend you can visit any time.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.

I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say 'I did that.'

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?