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" Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. "

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" Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. "

" Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. "

" Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me. "

Stella McCartney

" Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. "

" Use plants to bring life. "

" Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. "

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

" I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I'd say no. Eventually, I got 'Godspell.' It was gently building. "

" Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. "

" 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. "

" The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute. "

Charlotte Smith

" There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis. "

" Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. "

" Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake. "

" I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. "

" I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder. "

" A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. "

D. Elton Trueblood

" The ego is not master in its own house. "

" And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "

" My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking. "

Susan Hampshire

" The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. "

" Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. "

Zora Neale Hurston

" It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. "

" To dwell is to garden. "

Martin Heidegger

" I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime. "

" A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening. "

" He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. "

" I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. "

Phyllis Theroux

" I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening. "

" I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails. "

" There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything. "