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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back

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

Take thy plastic spade, It is thy pencil; tak

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Take thy plastic spade,
It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,
They are thy colours.

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoratio

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The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment

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In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mista

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My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.

Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to

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Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots.

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding

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Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.

In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The mai

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In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for

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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

There can be no other occupation like gardening i

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There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside

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When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too.

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dir

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You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is,

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I know that if odour were visible, as colour is,
I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dar

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It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

Thank you to Michael Garofalo of

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Thank you to Michael Garofalo of The Spirit of Gardening for sharing some of these quotations!

The best place to seek God is in a garden.

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The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not

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Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: - Oh, how beautiful! and sitting in the shade.

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the ho

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God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in

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Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.

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