Quotes and Sayings about Gardening
"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul."
- Alfred Austin
(Related: Nature, Soul, Heart, Body, Garden, Glory, Sun)
"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."
- Alfred Austin
(Related: Gardening, Nature, Class, Humility)
"I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one."
- Luis Barragan
(Related: Architecture, Gardening)
"I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it."
- Sean Bean
(Related: Love, Time, Gardening, Autumn, Plants, Trees)
"Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening."
- Tina Charles
(Related: Gardening, Roses)
"I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening."
- Steven Cojocaru
(Related: Gardening, Love, People, Fashion)
"My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking."
- Susan Hampshire
(Related: Home, Love, Gardening, Being, Cooking)
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."
- Gertrude Jekyll
(Related: Gardening, Love)
"All gardening is landscape painting."
- William Kent
(Related: Gardening, Painting)
"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
(Related: Love, Architecture, Gardening, Music, Pretty)
"Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable."
- Gary Miller
(Related: Gardening, People, Guest, Talk)
"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."
- Juliet Mills
(Related: Love, Gardening, HusbCats, Cooking, Hobbies, Soccer, Support, Tennis)
"The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London."
- Jeremy Northam
(Related: Funny, Gardening, Cooking, Light, London, Space)
"Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors."
- Oscar de la Renta
(Related: Gardening, Colors, Relax)
"Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama."
- J. M. Roberts
(Related: Gardening, Anarchy, Culture, Drama, Painting, Skill)
"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."
- May Sarton
(Related: Gardening, Nature, Grace, Help, Patience)
"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."
- Alexander Smith
(Related: Gardening, Heart, Gardens)
"I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation."
- Phyllis Theroux
(Related: Being, Creation, Present)
"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
(Related: Gardening, Work, Job, Literature, Reading)
"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."
- Charles Dudley Warner
(Related: Gardening, Man, Needs)