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

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

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

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.

I like gardening.

Gardening and my culinary skills keep me busy.

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

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.

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

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

Garden as though you will live forever.

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

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

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

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