3 December 2020 Alexander Smith How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
3 December 2020 Zora Neale Hurston Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
3 December 2020 Eric Morecambe 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.
3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
3 December 2020 Juliet Mills 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.
3 December 2020 Luis Barragan A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
3 December 2020 George Cadbury 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.
3 December 2020 Les Brown Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
3 December 2020 Michael Fish I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.
3 December 2020 Liberty Hyde Bailey A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
3 December 2020 Charles Dudley Warner What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
3 December 2020 Adam Ant I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing… getting back to reality.
3 December 2020 Roberto Burle Marx 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.
3 December 2020 Carolyn Murphy I’m not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I’m always wearing a hat and sunblock.
3 December 2020 Luther Burbank 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.
3 December 2020 Sean Bean 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.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Northam 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.
3 December 2020 D. Elton Trueblood 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.
3 December 2020 Susan Hampshire 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.
3 December 2020 B. C. Forbes It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden It is like the seed put in the soil – the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
3 December 2020 Steven Cojocaru I don’t hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.
3 December 2020 Alfred Austin 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.
3 December 2020 Emanuel Steward My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening – corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.
