279 Quotes About Gardening

I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along.

The more you look for beauty in the world, the more you will find.

May I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends,And many books, both true.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

As I leave the gardenI take with me a renewed view,And a quiet soul.

We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.

Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.