Ken Thompson Quotes

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.

What's not to aspire to about how to grow your own fruit and vegetables and plants, and then being creative?

I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.

I don't think that you can possibly embrace the kind of joy which one who has worked with plants and plant structures such as I have over a period of nearly 40 years, how wonderful the plant laboratory seems.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

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.

I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.

My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.

If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

I'm really into gardening.

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.

The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

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.