gardening

By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.

It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.