Beauty Quote by Ketzel Levine

Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at the moment…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I see myself as a writer who happens to garden.

— Monty Don

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other,…

— Haruki Murakami

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

Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s…

— Anonymous

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers…

— Eudora Welty

Is it too ingenuous to imagine that anything can be left to say about a garden? Garden literature, descriptive, reminiscent, and technical, has blossomed…

— Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around…

— Jamaica Kincaid

... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing…

— Nan Fairbrother

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

“Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the case.”

— Carla H. Krueger