• "The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love." - Luther Burbank Tweet
• "Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans." - Marcelene Cox Tweet
• "One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?" - Francis Cabot Lowell Tweet
• "A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows." - Doug Larson Tweet
• "What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?" - Roy Rogers Tweet
• "A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion." - Liberty Hyde Bailey Tweet
• "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 Marx Tweet
• "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 to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening." - Ken Thompson Tweet
• "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Tweet
• "Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about." - Thomas Moore Tweet