A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back with a hinge in it.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

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

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

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth and without light nothing flowers.

Gardening is not a rational act.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

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.

All gardening is landscape painting.

To dwell is to garden.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt head in the sun heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body but the soul.

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

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is to a landscape artist not only a plant - rare unusual ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color a shape a volume or an arabesque in itself.

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.