"Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot." - Dixie Lee RayTweet
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures." - Francis BaconTweet
"My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society." - Andrew WeilTweet
"I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive." - Simon BakerTweet
"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
"I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good." - Michael FishTweet
"Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening." - Tina CharlesTweet
"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
"If a tree dies, plant another in its place." - Carolus LinnaeusTweet
"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