Any Quote by Monty Don

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and…

— John Evelyn

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

— Mary McCarthy

Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has…

— Andrew Weil

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

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

— Monty Don

Gardening is a humbling experience.

— Martha Stewart

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set…

— Dorothy Gilman

Gardening is all about optimism.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

— Patience Strong

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

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