Flower Quote by S. Kelley Harrell

“Gardening is easier than it is often made out to be.”

— Charles Dowding

“Different languages, different food, different customs. That's our neighborhood: wild and tangled and colorful. Like the best kind of garden.”

— Katherine Applegate

“A garden is like the self. It has so many layers and winding paths, real or imagined, that it can never be known, completely,…

— Anne Raver

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

— Russell Page

The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and nature -…

— David E. Cooper

“It’s that which is between the gardener and his bit of soil that makes a garden.”

— Robin Hobb

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

much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.

— Patience Strong

“A well-tended garden will flourish.”

— Malva Freymuth Tarasewicz

Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly…

— Geoff Hamilton

“Always cherish fertile soil.”

— Giovannie de Sadeleer

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

— Mary McCarthy