Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. – Robert Fortune
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ. – Roy Blount, Jr.
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. – Penelope Keith
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. – Robert Smithson
Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow. – Penelope Keith
It’s my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they’ve got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role. – Robert Irwin
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they’re tender. They have to be persistent. – Ralph Fiennes
Living in New York after 14 years, I’m such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture. – Paige Butcher
I don’t see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough. – Russell Smith
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. – Robert Louis Stevenson
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees – just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. – Sean Bean
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. – Roberto Burle Marx
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. – Robert Bridges
There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer’s day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air. – Peter Mayle
From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. – Thomas Moore
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? – Wendell Berry
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. – Stephen Gardiner
I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder. – Tom Hodgkinson