To a gardener there is nothing more exasperating than a hose that just isn't long enough. ~ Cecil Roberts

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissing the tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~ Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg

Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself. ~ Renata Adler

I have a garden of my own,/ But so with roses overgrown,/ And lilies, that you would it guess/ to be a little wilderness. ~ Andrew Marvell

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Gardens are a collaboration with nature, engaging all the senses. They express life, death and the passage of time. ~ Douglas Campbell

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take/ Towards the door we never opened/ Into the rose garden. ~ T.S. Eliot

No garden is without its weeds. ~ Thomas Fuller

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

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