Gardening is not a rational act.

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

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Use plants to bring life.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

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.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

I love decorating my home. I am a gardener too, so that is usually something I have to play catch up with.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

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

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

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

Garden as though you will live forever.