Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
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.
Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.