Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration. Votes: 4
Louise EricksonI don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. Votes: 4
Walt DisneyGardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe. Votes: 3
Thomas BerryGardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. Votes: 3
May SartonGardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. Votes: 3
Helen MirrenGardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors. Votes: 3
Oscar de la RentaGardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive. Votes: 3
Henry MitchellGardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. Votes: 3
Clive AndersonGardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense. Votes: 3
Phyllis McGinleyGardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. Votes: 3
Henry David ThoreauHow deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. Votes: 2
Alexander SmithWhat a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. Votes: 2
Charles Dudley WarnerGardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. Votes: 2
Rudyard KiplingThe garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. Votes: 2
Larry DosseyIt will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. Votes: 2
George EliotWell I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. Votes: 2
Doris DayI love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia. Votes: 2
Barbra StreisandA flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. Votes: 2
DogenA weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. Votes: 2
Doug LarsonHalf the interest of the garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. Votes: 1
Mrs. C.W. EarleBy bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors. Votes: 1
S. Kelley HarrellWater will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens. Votes: 1
Tom TurnerSunflowers for Sarita is a fast-paced, high caliber romantic suspense. I couldn't stop reading! Votes: 1
Mary Alice MonroeLife already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden? Votes: 1
Felder RushingAt the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds. Votes: 1
Kelseyleigh ReberA garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people; they determine its beauty Votes: 1
Seth Adam SmithWhen people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles. Votes: 1
Horace WalpolePlants want to grow; they are on your side as long as you are reasonably sensible. Votes: 1
Anne WarehamI love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. Votes: 1
Ruth StoutOne of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. Votes: 1
Dan BennettSi hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deeritHe who has a garden and a library wants for nothing Votes: 1
Marcus Tullius CiceroMay I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends,And many books, both true. Votes: 1
Abraham CowleyIf every individual should plant a tree in their life time, the world will be full of trees. Votes: 1
Lailah Gifty AkitaDoesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY. Votes: 1
Felder RushingDandelions, like all things in nature are beautiful when you take the time to pay attention to them. Votes: 1
June StoyerHome-grown pears are best eaten in the bath - they're so juicy, it's the easiest way to stay clean! Votes: 1
Mitchell BeazleyCooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history. Votes: 0
David ChangI don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening. Votes: 0
Steven CojocaruNo gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff. Votes: 0
Mark Z. DanielewskiDo we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs? Votes: 0
David AttenboroughPeople who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little. Votes: 0
Anna Bartlett WarnerWriter's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block. Votes: 0
Emo Philipsgardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary. Votes: 0
May SartonGood gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant. Votes: 0
Barbara DamroschBeing alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least. Votes: 0
Charles BowdenThe trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. Votes: 0
Phyllis McGinleyI have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening. Votes: 0
Scott CohenI like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. Votes: 0
Alice SeboldI like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding. Votes: 0
John HurtThe worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin. Votes: 0
Jan StrutherGo out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year. Votes: 0
Richardson WrightIn addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind. Votes: 0
Allen LacyI think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening. Votes: 0
Martha StewartI tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening. Votes: 0
Udo KierI loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens. Votes: 1 Elton John
Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. Votes: 1 Hillary Clinton
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. Votes: 1 J. M. Roberts
My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing. Votes: 1 J. B. Smoove
I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime. Votes: 2 Blake Shelton
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. Votes: 1 May Sarton
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming. Votes: 1 John O'Donohue
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. Votes: 2 May Sarton
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. Votes: 5 Gertrude Jekyll
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers Votes: 3 Bill Mollison