Famous Quotes About gardening

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.

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.

I do the gardening.

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.

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.

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.

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.