What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.
I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.
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.
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.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
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.
Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.
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.
There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
