"Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow." - Zora Neale HurstonTweet
"My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden." - Eric MorecambeTweet
"A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself." - Roberto Burle MarxTweet
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Les BrownTweet
"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed." - Luther BurbankTweet
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies." - Gertrude JekyllTweet
"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too." - William CowperTweet
"My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking." - Susan HampshireTweet
"I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer." - Jane PauleyTweet
"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." - Sean BeanTweet