• "I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow." - David Hobson Tweet
• "A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them." - Liberty Hyde Bailey Tweet
• "It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees." - George Eliot Tweet
• "The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London." - Jeremy Northam Tweet
• "What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?" - Roy Rogers Tweet
• "I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality." - Adam Ant Tweet
• "Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers." - May Sarton Tweet
• "I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation." - Phyllis Theroux Tweet
• "I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds." - Martha Smith Tweet
• "God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures." - Francis Bacon Tweet