3 December 2020 Robert Smithson When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
3 December 2020 Rudyard Kipling Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
3 December 2020 May Sarton Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
3 December 2020 Francis Cabot Lowell One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one’s horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
3 December 2020 John Harrison If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
3 December 2020 Roy Blount, Jr. Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
3 December 2020 Simon Baker I’m pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I’m doing something constructive.
3 December 2020 Michael Pollan The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
3 December 2020 Luther Burbank The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
3 December 2020 Dorothy Malone I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
3 December 2020 Phyllis Theroux I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
3 December 2020 Luis Barragan I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
3 December 2020 H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
3 December 2020 Marcelene Cox 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.
3 December 2020 Thomas Moore 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.
3 December 2020 Walt Disney I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
3 December 2020 Ken Thompson 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.
