• "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
• "I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one." - Luis Barragan Tweet
• "I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today." - Penelope Keith Tweet
• "A good garden may have some weeds." - Thomas Fuller Tweet
• "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 Bean Tweet
• "We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest." - Voltaire Tweet
• "I do the gardening." - Kenneth Robert Livingstone 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
• "Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life." - Andrew Weil Tweet
• "I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds." - Martha Smith Tweet