Gardening is not a rational act.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

All gardening is landscape painting.

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.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is gardening is just the opposite - it is or should be a central basic expression of human life.

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.