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" When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. "

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" I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards. "

Jamaica Kincaid

" 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

" Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. "

" God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. "

" Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. "

" I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer. "

" 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. "

" Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. "

" 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. "

" Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable. "

" 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. "

" The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. "

Nicholas Culpeper

" 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

" Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. "

" Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house. "

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

" I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. "

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

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

" There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy. "

" The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? "

" Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can't stand going to the gym. It doesn't appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time. "

" 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. "

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

" The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. "

William Wordsworth

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

Zora Neale Hurston

" One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers. "

" I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend. "

" More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him. "