279 Quotes About Gardening

Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too.

For me, food quality isn’t a question of organic versus conventional, or no-till versus digging-in, or heirloom versus hybrid. It’s a question of what I want to grow, and what I should do to help each seed or plant become the best vegetable it can possibly be.

Anthropomorphism is unavoidable, I am finding, in writing about gardening: weeds don't just grow, they grow with intent, they grow aggressively. Well, they do, as any gardener knows. They sneak in and swarm up when your back is turned.

For honey bees, a dandelion is the first sign of Spring!

Invasive plants were like all evil things; the only way to ensure that they wouldn't return was to face them head-on, battle it out, and win. Anything else was only a temporary fix. I sighed, thinking of my own life. I was letting the weeds grow all over me. They were threatening my happiness and, in some ways, my life. So why couldn't I face them?

I don't want to return to the world outside these Gardens. All I want is to notice the dew on a leaf. The holy busyness of worms in the soil.

...en los jardines como en los amores, la proporción es más difícil de lograr que en la pintura, la arquitectura, la escultura o cualquier otra forma de arte estático. Porque el jardín y el amor tienen cuatro dimensiones: pasa el tiempo y sus elementos crecen y cambian. O simplemente desaparecen.

There is no elegance or character of any sort in [the forsythia's] structure. Its crude expose of colour is undiluted by foliage. And in its most popular cultivars the flowers are packed into such congested lumps that it is like being asked to swallow a helping of cornflour pudding.

There is always a little bit of purslane in Paradise.