Gardening famous quotes
04-23-2025
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No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.
-- Alfred Austin -
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
-- Alice B. Toklas -
I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
-- Alice Sebold -
What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
-- Alice Walker -
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.
-- Allen Lacy -
I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.
-- Anna Bartlett Warner -
Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.
-- Barbara Damrosch -
Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.
-- Barbara Damrosch -
I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.
-- Carolyn Murphy -
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.
-- Charles Saatchi -
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
-- Claude Monet -
Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.
-- Clive Anderson -
Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.
-- Diane von Furstenberg -
Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.
-- Eleanor Perenyi -
I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I - well, I wouldn't say prayed over, but pleaded with, cajoled. A rhododendron that hadn't bloomed for six years was flatly told it would be removed the following year if there were no flowers. Need I say that it has bloomed profusely ever since?
-- Eleanor Perenyi -
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.
-- Emily Oster -
I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not go nude?
-- Eva Mendes -
If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.
-- Evagrius Ponticus -
I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
-- Gates McFadden -
Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.
-- George P. Bush -
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
-- Gertrude Jekyll -
The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.
-- Gertrude Jekyll -
To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.
-- Guy Browning -
Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question of superior or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at the moment. Getting there (as they say) is not important; the wandering about in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the bayous is the whole point.
-- Henry Mitchell -
Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.
-- Henry Mitchell -
Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.
-- Hilarie Burton -
My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing. I power wash everything: my wife, the mailman with the f-cking mail, power wash his ass, f-ck my mail up, I don't care.
-- J. B. Smoove -
[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.
-- Jan Struther -
The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.
-- Jan Struther -
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.
-- Jane Pauley -
When you plant early, you bring spring early.
-- Jean Hersey -
At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.
-- Jennifer Saunders -
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.
-- John Evelyn -
Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.
-- Kim Wilde -
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
-- Luis Barragan -
it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.
-- Mabel Osgood Wright -
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.
-- Margaret Atwood -
My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.
-- Margaret Bourke-White -
Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them.
-- Margery Fish -
No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.
-- Mark Z. Danielewski -
The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.
-- Mary McCarthy -
Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu -
gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.
-- May Sarton -
If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.
-- Nan Fairbrother -
I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.
-- Oscar de la Renta -
gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.
-- Patience Strong -
much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.
-- Patience Strong -
Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!
-- Philippe Kahn -
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
-- Rudyard Kipling -
Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.
-- Simon Baker -
I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.
-- Steven Cojocaru -
The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt.
-- Texas Bix Bender -
Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.
-- Theodore Roethke -
Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.
-- Thomas Berry -
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
-- Timothy Leary -
Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface
-- Toby Hemenway -
I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.
-- Vigen Guroian -
Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
-- Vita Sackville-West -
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.
-- Vita Sackville-West -
But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ...
-- Vita Sackville-West -
There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
-- Vita Sackville-West -
Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.
-- Vita Sackville-West -
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
-- William Cowper -
Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires a certain goodness on the part of the gardener: care, humility, patience, and respect, for example.
-- David E. Cooper -
Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.
-- Jim Nollman -
I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.
-- Lauren Bowles -
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.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.
-- Veronique Vienne -
Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life
-- Alan Titchmarsh -
Computers, singing, reading, painting and gardening are my hobbies.
-- Arfa Karim -
What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
-- Roy Rogers -
History is everything in gardening: With a site, weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why, when others say, "You can't do that!" you can know with deepest certainty that you can.
-- Janet Macunovich -
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.
-- Ken Thompson
