Compensation Quote by Phyllis McGinley

Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you…

— Jerry Baker

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

— Russell Page

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor…

— Andrew Weil

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

— John Evelyn

In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.

— Robert Rodale

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

If a garden is well maintained and neatly landscaped, there must be a dedicated and efficient gardener.

— Mr. Lee

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

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

— May Sarton

Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

— Allen Lacy

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

— Charles Dudley Warner