cultivating plants Quotes

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.

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

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

I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners. . . . Gardening seems to me a kind of admission of defeat. . . . Man was made for better things than pruning his rose trees. The state of mind of the confirmed gardener seems to me as reprehensible as that of the confirmed alcoholic. Both have capitulated to the world. Both have become lotus eaters and drifters.

'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden cannot be made by somebody who has not developed the capacity to know and love growing things.

Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.

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