• "I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds." - Martha Smith Tweet
• "I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening." - Ken Thompson 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
• "Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot." - Dixie Lee Ray Tweet
• "A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy." - Luis Barragan Tweet
• "The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul." - Alfred Austin Tweet
• "Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama." - J. M. Roberts Tweet
• "How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening." - Alexander Smith Tweet
• "I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton." - Dorothy Malone Tweet
• "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