John Steinbeck Quotes

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

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

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

Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens.

I'm a flower gardener.

I like being outside and I like hard work.

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of the fig tree, makes the low wall of coarse Granite warm to the touch. Here my tools lie ready and waiting, Each one an intimate, an ally: the round basket for weeds: The zappetta, the small hoe with a short haft . . . There's a rake here as well, at at times a mattock and spade, Or two watering cans filled with water warmed by the sun. With my basket and small hoe in hand, facing the sun, I Go out for my morning walk.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

I'm really into gardening.

I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

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

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.

I've always loved being outdoors, getting my hands dirty.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

A good garden may have some weeds.

I do the gardening.

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

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

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.