I Like Gardening Quotes

#1. I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

Lars Von Trier

#2. I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

Alice Sebold

#3. Georgian England, to see those wonderful houses being built. And the clothes were interesting too, although I wouldn't want to wear a wig. It's also the most beautiful period of English landscape gardening. They had famous gardeners like Capability Brown.

Alan Titchmarsh

#4. I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.

Michel, 14th Prince Of Ligne

#5. I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Jamaica Kincaid

#6. I love my garden, and I love working in it. To potter with green growing things, watching each day to see the dear, new sprouts come up, is like taking a hand in creation, I think. Just now my garden is like faith - the substance of things hoped for.

L.M. Montgomery

#7. I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.

Udo Kier

#8. I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.

Helen Mirren

#9. The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Walt Disney

#11. The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

Jeremy Northam

#12. I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

Blake Shelton

#13. I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

C. Z. Guest

#14. Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#15. I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

John Hurt

#16. Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around and walk around. Apparently people often see me standing there and they wave to me and I don't see them because I am reading the landscape.

Jamaica Kincaid

#17. You know I know next to zip about gardening, right?
It's easy. You buy the pretty pots from the nursery, you stick them in the ground. If they die, you buy more. If not, you brag like there's no tomorrow.

Sarah Mayberry

#18. I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

Hayley Mills

#19. I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along.

Georgann Low

#20. Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

Clive Anderson

#21. 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

#22. I like to write. I like to choose the right word, I like to write the right sentence. It's just like gardening or something. You put the seed into the soil at the right time, in the right place.

Haruki Murakami

#23. I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.

Dennis Basso

#24. My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.

Susan Hampshire

#25. I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.

Vita Sackville-West

#26. I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.

Michael Pollan

#27. I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

Nick Cave

#28. I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers ... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

Beau Bridges

#29. I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

Steven Cojocaru

#30. 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

#31. Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.

Emma Tennant

#32. My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.

Emanuel Steward

#33. Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

Mike Krieger

#34. In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

Lee Hall

#35. 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

#36. I do
sincerely trust that the benediction that is always
awaiting me in my garden may by degrees be more
deserved, and that I may grow in grace, and
patience, and cheerfulness, just like the happy
flowers I so much love.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#37. I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

Simon Baker

#38. I remember how Talia got me to talk about the gardening thing. I've never told anyone else about that, but with this girl, I sort of feel like I can be myself without worrying about looking uncool. After all, she doesn't even know what "cool" is.

Alex Flinn

#39. Gardening is like landscape painting to me. The garden is the canvas. Plants, containers and other garden features are the colors. I paint on the garden of canvas hoping to create a master piece with my colors.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#40. I journeyed alone for almost ten years before I found home. Adoptions are like very delicate gardening with transplants and grafts. Mine took hold, rooted, and bloomed, even though there were inevitable adjustments to the new soil and climate. Yet I have not forgotten where my roots started.

Ashley Rhodes-Courter

#41. Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.

Bill Richardson

#42. It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

Viggo Mortensen

#43. I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Barbra Streisand