James Boswell Quotes

I keep myself busy, I read a lot, watch a lot of TV, and do a lot of gardening. I do stupid stuff and I love it.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.

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.

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.

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

I like flowers. In my next life, maybe I can be a gardener.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.

I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.

gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

A flower is an educated weed.

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.