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" 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

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" It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

" I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. "

" I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things. "

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

" Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? "

" When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again. "

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

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

Zora Neale Hurston

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

" I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers. "

" 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. "

" Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. "

Georges Bernanos

" The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon. "

Denholm Elliott

" I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. "

" Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. "

" I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. "

" Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people. "

" He plants trees to benefit another generation. "

Caecilius Statius

" Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! "

" The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him. "

" Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. "

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

" Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot? "

" Use plants to bring life. "

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

" I'm really into gardening. "

" I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. "

" There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. "

" There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air. "

" Garden as though you will live forever. "

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

Phyllis Theroux