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

Gardening is not a rational act.

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

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.

All gardening is landscape painting.

To dwell is to garden.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt head in the sun heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body but the soul.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is to a landscape artist not only a plant - rare unusual ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color a shape a volume or an arabesque in itself.

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.

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

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh how beautiful ' and sitting in the shade.

A good garden may have some weeds.

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

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

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

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

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work which proves that man was not born to rest.