"A good garden may have some weeds." - Thomas FullerTweet
"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 BaileyTweet
"I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens." - Elton JohnTweet
"Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ." - Roy Blount, Jr.Tweet
"I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess." - Walt DisneyTweet
"What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?" - Roy RogersTweet
"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 HobsonTweet
"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
"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
"Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors." - Oscar de la RentaTweet