A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because... →
Liberty Hyde Bailey
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.
Simon Baker
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.
Dennis Basso
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... →
Sean Bean
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Georges Bernanos
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Wendell Berry
I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.
Eve Best