I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
Phyllis Theroux
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... →
Ken Thompson
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood
Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide... →
Alfred de Vigny
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born... →
Voltaire
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice Walker
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
Charles Dudley Warner
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers... →
Daniel Webster
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is... →
Andrew Weil
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon... →