Renata Adler Quotes

I like to walk around. And I have a really big garden in Brooklyn. Growing tomatoes in my backyard feels very rewarding.

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

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

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

I like gardening.

The environment was so strong, so dramatic. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it's in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament.

Gardening does so much for your brain. You're learning how a process works, and how important it is to do everything right so that you can eventually enjoy a tomato three months later. I've always been patient, but gardening really helps you with that.

I like my garden. It sounds boring, but it's not.

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

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

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.

The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

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

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.