Gardening is not a rational act.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

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

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

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

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Use plants to bring life.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.