279 Quotes About Gardening

As far as Frances was concerned, gardening was simply open-air housework.

Soap wasn't invented until the Romans, who also invented interesting sex. (Since my editor informs me that a gardening book is not a proper venue for discussions of interesting sex, I will go into this topic in more detail when I write my private memoirs, 'A Petunia Named Desire').

You will realize that those round, pinkish red things that are available in the stores bear no resemblance at all to the real tomato

The non-hybrids/heirlooms I grew equaled or out-yielded the hybrids in general, with far superior flavors and variety.

The labour of diggingand watering, the anxious zeal with which Ipounced on weeds, the poring over gardeningbooks, the plans made as I sat on the little seatin the middle gazing admiringly and with theeye of faith on the trim surface so soon to begemmed with a thousand flowers, the recklessexpenditure of pfennings^ the humiliation of myposition in regard to Fraulein Wundermacher,all, all had been in vain.

Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.

I love my garden, and I love working in it. To potter with green growing things, watching each day to see the dear, new sprouts come up, is like taking a hand in creation, I think. Just now my garden is like faith - the substance of things hoped for.

I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.

Gardeners are the ultimate mixologists.