279 Quotes About Gardening

It won't be a chore, it will be a garden,' Holena said.

I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.

Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.

The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear- with water, wtih birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.