“My hobby is gardening, I love it, it’s my main hobby. I like being at home and I’m very happy being in my house, I love cooking.”
– Susan Hampshire
“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 world, the more justice, the more sense is created.”
– Andrew Weil
“My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.”
– Juliet Mills
“I do the gardening.”
– Kenneth Robert Livingstone
“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.”
– J. M. Roberts
“Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite – it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.”
– Andrew Weil
“Rock ‘n’ Roll, no roses or gardening.”
– Tina Charles
“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.”
– Adam Ant
“I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren’t really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.”
– Ken Thompson
“I don’t hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.”
– Steven Cojocaru
“I’m pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I’m doing something constructive.”
– Simon Baker
“I’m not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I’m always wearing a hat and sunblock.”
– Carolyn Murphy
“Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.”
– Clive Anderson
“The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.”
– Jeremy Northam
“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.”
– Gary Miller
“Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.”
“- Roy Blount, Jr.”
“I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees – just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.”
– Sean Bean
“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 just and beautiful society.”
– Andrew Weil
“I love a lot of things, and I’m pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I’d be an obsessive hairdresser.”
– Gates McFadden
“My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening – corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.”
– Emanuel Steward
“A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.”
– Luis Barragan
“One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one’s horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?”
– Francis Cabot Lowell
“Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.”
– Dixie Lee Ray
“Garden as though you will live forever.”
– William Kent
“I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.”
– Luis Barragan
“There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.”
– Alfred Austin
“I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.”
– Elton John
“I love decorating my home. I’m a gardener too, so that’s usually something I have to play catch up with.”
– Suzy Bogguss
“If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.”
– John Harrison
“Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.”
– Dogen Zenji