279 Quotes About Gardening

What is gardening but tidying and maintaining an outside space? And yet we don't think of it as a chore; we see it as a pleasure and something that relaxes us. Crucially, it is something that often fully absorbs us while we do it. This is the very definition of a mindful activity.

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

Go ahead: say what you're thinking. The gardenis not the real world. Machines are the real world.

So far as I am concerned the difference between men and women is that men are interested in cutting grass and women are not. I actually prefer a daisy-sprinkled lawn; Jack, of course, wanted meticulous stripes.

Watching youstare into space in the tidyrows of the vegetable garden, ostensiblyworking hard while actuallydoing the worst job possible, I thinkyou are a small irritating purple thingand I would like to see you walk off the face of the earthbecause you are all that's wrong with my lifeand I need you and I claim you.

Home-grown pears are best eaten in the bath - they're so juicy, it's the easiest way to stay clean!

Going out to the garden is to go on a holiday; when you travel amongst the flowers, your body touches heaven and your mind tastes the secrets of ataraxia!

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture—it won’t accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy’ time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "solutions," this one "solves" a single problem by causing many...A garden, on the other hand, is a solution that leads to other solutions. It is a part of the limitless pattern of good health and good sense.