"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 MooreTweet
"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
"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway." - Michael PollanTweet
"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees." - George EliotTweet
"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
"In search of my mother's garden, I found my own." - Alice WalkerTweet
"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 SartonTweet
"I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening." - Steven CojocaruTweet
"I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive." - Simon BakerTweet
"Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening." - Tina CharlesTweet