I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, j...
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.
Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.
One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you c...
I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
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.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
Garden as though you will live forever.
All gardening is landscape painting.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
