Quotes: Gardening

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.

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.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.

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.

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.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

I don’t hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

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.