The garden of God is full of ripen fruits.

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?

I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to cut off your wife's leg, stick it in the lawn, and be greeted on the following day by an entirely new woman, sprung from the leg, advancing across the lawn to meet you.

After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

A rule to remember when dealing with garden pests: if it is slow-moving stamp on it; if it is fast-moving leave it alone - it will probably kill something else.

We have descended into the garden and caught 300 slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

The difference between a good garden and bad garden is a fortnight.

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

Gardens are a form of autobiography.

I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

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

There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution than we used to be.

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything -except itself.

I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

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.