Annoying Quote by Eleanor Perenyi

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul.…

— William Lawson

Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any…

— Rachel Carson

“Quite simply, plants don’t want to be eaten—and who can blame them? Like any living thing, their instinct is to propagate the next generation…

— Steven R. Gundry

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

— Paulo Coelho

Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's…

— Jane Kaczmarek

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult…

— Vita Sackville-West

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

— Monty Don

Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

— Janet Macunovich

The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he…

— Freya Stark

“Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be…

— David Wheeler

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

— Henry David Thoreau

Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.

— Allen Lacy