Gardening Quotes

122. People are increasingly realising that what they eat is important. You can’t put junk food in your body and be healthy. All sorts of problems can develop, like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, strokes. Gardening not only helps with exercise and mental health, but it can improve diet as well.

^{Monty Don}

123. Rock ‘n’ Roll, no roses or gardening.

^{Tina Charles}

124. I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.

^{Aaron Taylor-Johnson}

125. My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

^{Juliet Mills}

126. I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding.

^{Monty Don}

127. I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I’m not writing songs or gardening, I’m painting.

^{Chris Rea}

128. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

^{Elton John}

129. My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening – corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.

^{Emanuel Steward}

130. At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

^{Jennifer Saunders}

131. Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.

^{Monty Don}

132. Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can’t stand going to the gym. It doesn’t appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time.

^{Mary Berry}

133. Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.

^{Lizz Wright}

136. We are extremely uncomfortable with the spiritual aspects of gardening, and yet most people feel it in some form or other, even if it’s a sense of connection to the greater world on a beautiful day.

^{Monty Don}

137. I really cherish my time at home. As you know, I love my husband so much, but he’s always doing everything for me out here to keep me rolling forward. But I don’t get to do near enough for him. So when I’m at home, I like to cook for him and do some gardening – all that wife-y kinda stuff, you know?

^{Beth Hart}

138. I’m not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I’m always wearing a hat and sunblock.

^{Carolyn Murphy}

139. I’m really into gardening.

^{Brea Grant}

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

^{Luis Barragan}

141. It’s my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they’ve got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role.

^{Robert Irwin}

142. I’m pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I’m doing something constructive.

^{Simon Baker}

143. I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees – just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

^{Sean Bean}

144. Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, ‘You know, that doesn’t look right’.

^{Siddhartha Mukherjee}

145. I’ve got really into gardening.

^{Joe Lycett}

146. The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.

^{Monty Don}

147. I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

^{Blake Shelton}

148. All those who run away to ashrams, thinking they are doing something great are just performing daily chores there – cooking, gardening etc. After all, the place has to be run.

^{Tanushree Dutta}

149. I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.

^{Emma Tennant}

150. There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

^{Alfred Austin}

155. My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

^{J. B. Smoove}

156. There is a direct correlation between gardening and mental health, not just to maintain good mental health but to repair it as well – that’s anything in the gamut from depression to serious brain damage, schizophrenia or autism.

^{Monty Don}

157. Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

^{David Chang}

158. Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

^{Robert Irwin}

159. As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection. – Gardening Quotes

^{Michael Pollan}

160. Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment. – Gardening Quotes

^{Monty Don}

161. I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.

^{Nick Cave}

162. I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I’d say no. Eventually, I got ‘Godspell.’ It was gently building. – Gardening Quotes

^{Jeremy Irons}

163. I like gardening. – Gardening Quotes

^{Sophie Okonedo}

164. I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing… getting back to reality.

^{Adam Ant}

165. Living in New York after 14 years, I’m such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.

^{Paige Butcher}

166. I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I’m totally lowmaintenance. I don’t ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.

^{Shilpa Shetty}

167. Gardening is seen as a pastime that is almost like belonging to the Church of England – a sign of maturity and wisdom and right thinking. – Gardening Quotes

^{Monty Don}

168. Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

^{J. M. Roberts}

169. I keep myself busy, I read a lot, watch a lot of TV, and do a lot of gardening. I do stupid stuff and I love it.

^{Akshaye Khanna}

170. Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

^{Roy Blount, Jr.}

171. Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. – Gardening Quotes

^{Hilarie Burton}

172. I’ve always loved the woods, and I’ve always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.

^{Lizz Wright}

173. In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled.Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.

^{Andrew Weil}

174. Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

^{Clive Anderson}

175. 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. – Gardening Quotes

^{Gates McFadden}

176. My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable – it would be weedingthe strawberries, mowing the grass.

^{Monty Don}

177. I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren’t really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

^{Ken Thompson}

178. The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

^{Jeremy Northam}

179. I don’t hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening. – Gardening Quotes

186. There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

^{Emily Oster}

187. When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It’s uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It’s trial and error, really. If something doesn’t work, it comes out, and you start all over again.

^{Emilia Fox}

188. If I’m in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge – l’art d’accommoder les restes – it means gardening.

^{Christian Louboutin}

189. I’m mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden. – Gardening Quotes

^{Deborah Moggach}

190. I don’t see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism werejust as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough. – Gardening Quotes

^{Russell Smith}

191. I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

^{Eve Best}

192. I like the physical activity of gardening. It’s kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding. – Gardening Quotes

^{John Hurt}

193. Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

^{Hillary Clinton}