Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.
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 spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair
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.
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
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?
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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 j...
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 w...
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.
He plants trees to benefit another generation.
