Activity Quote by Susan Hill

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something…

— Vita Sackville-West

An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.

— Leslie Hall

Gardening is all about optimism.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of…

— Carol Deppe

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

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

— Monty Don

Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the…

— Richardson Wright

“You're not a gardener, are you? So perhaps you don't know that once a garden is established, much of good gardening is about removal…

— Rosalie Parker

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life… Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult…

— Vita Sackville-West

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

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the…

— Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

One becomes a gardener by becoming a gardener.

— Allen Lacy