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The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
Gertrude Jekyll
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Roberto Burle Marx
The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.
Vera Nazarian
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
Eric Morecambe
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
William Cowper
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
Robert Smithson
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood
My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.
Emanuel Steward
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
Francis Cabot Lowell
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
May Sarton
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.
Dixie Lee Ray
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
Marcelene Cox
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. Forbes
I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.
Suzy Bogguss
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
Charles Dudley Warner
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
Thomas Jefferson
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
Andrew Weil
