Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors. Oscar de la Renta on gardening
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. Alfred Austin on gardening
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. Eric Morecambe on gardening
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. Roberto Burle Marx on gardening
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. Gertrude Jekyll on 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 on gardening
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. Zora Neale Hurston on gardening
What's a butterfly garden without butterflies? Roy Rogers on gardening
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. B. C. Forbes on gardening
But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life. George Cadbury on gardening
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. Thomas Moore on gardening
All gardening is landscape painting. William Kent on gardening
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. Marcelene Cox on gardening
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. Alexander Smith on gardening
I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. Martha Smith on gardening
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. Luther Burbank on gardening
Gardening is not a rational act. Margaret Atwood on gardening
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. May Sarton on gardening
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. Phyllis Theroux on gardening