There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along.
All gardening is landscape painting.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
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...
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.