Areas Quote by Geoff Hamilton

I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find…

— Julie Moir Messervy

Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can…

— Audrey Hepburn

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a…

— Karel Capek

“There are many paths leading to a garden and many experiences awaiting those who venture in. No matter what your motive—whether to grow healthy,…

— Jane Shellenberger

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

— Diane Dreher

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

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just…

— Alfred Austin

Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as…

— Joshua Reynolds

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

There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of…

— Christopher McDowell

Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think…

— Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the…

— Richardson Wright