Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration.

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

To create a garden is to search for a better world. In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided by a vision of paradise.

Garden as though you will live forever.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.

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

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

The garden is a mirror of the heart.

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.

If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

In the garden, beauty is a byproduct. The main business is sex and death.

Weeds are nature’s graffiti.

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

Don't wear perfume in the garden unless you want to be pollinated by bees.