Gardening Quote by Shirley Jackson

“I knew about wild plums twice before I tasted any.”

— Grace Stone Coates

“Vegetables come from the ground. So does my love. Eat it raw.”

— Jarod Kintz

“ This is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast…

— William Carlos Williams

“I felt rippling wheat field and crows circling within me. I was a vase of sunflowers ready to spit seeds like weapons at the…

— Jodi Baker

“Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells, And marigolds all in a row.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“The fruit of the garden is not restricted to what we eat. Every garden lends something more to the imagination - beauty.”

— Vigen Guroian

“COOK AND, IF YOU CAN, PLANT A GARDEN.”

— Michael Pollan

“dinner. I would climb over the farmer’s fence and toss back to my father samples of the crop I was harvesting. It could be…

— Charles Brandt

“Is it from your cheek that I took the seed?”

— Markus Zusak

“What is home without Plumtree's Potted Meat? Incomplete.”

— James Joyce

“My thoughts hovered over all varieties of mortal edible, and finally settled on a porterhouse steak and a quart of bitter with a welsh…

— John Buchan

“I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries.”

— Novella Carpenter