What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
My extravagance is my garden – it’s the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
A good garden may have some weeds.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you’ve walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there’s no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Garden as though you will live forever.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings – then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
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.
