I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. David Hobson
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. D. Elton Trueblood
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. William Cowper
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors. Oscar de la Renta
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. Alfred Austin
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
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
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. Gertrude Jekyll
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
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. Zora Neale Hurston
What's a butterfly garden without butterflies? Roy Rogers
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. B. C. Forbes
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
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
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
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. Alexander Smith
I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. Martha Smith
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