Famous Quotes About gardening

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

Garden as though you will live forever.

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

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?

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.