Top 230 Gardening Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I really cherish my time at home. As you know, I love my husband so much, but he's always doing everything for me out here to keep me rolling forward. But I don't get to do near enough for him. So when I'm at home, I like to cook for him and do some gardening - all that wife-y kinda stuff, you know?

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

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

I've got really into gardening.

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

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

I'm really into gardening.

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.

I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?

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

I learned a lot while labouring and gardening. Whenever I feel tired and want to go home while doing TV work, I just think how tough groundworking is.

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 am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.

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

Use plants to bring life.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

I keep myself busy, I read a lot, watch a lot of TV, and do a lot of gardening. I do stupid stuff and I love it.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

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

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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.

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.

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.

Gardening is one of my enduring, favourite, and most rewarding pastimes.

I'm not a gardener. I don't have the consistency for gardening, and I have barely enough for an orchard. I don't embarrass myself. You have to be there tending and weeding. With orchards, you can go through negligent periods and recover.

I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

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

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.

I like to keep fit, and when not gardening or singing solo or in a choir, I cycle, play tennis, swim, dance, and practise yoga.

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

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

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?

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

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.

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

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots.

When I'm outside gardening, it can be so inspiring. I think of words and melodies. It's peaceful. Every singer-songwriter should find something outside of music that makes them as happy as gardening makes me.

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

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.

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.