Diane Ackerman Quotes

I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.

I get around nature. I have a vegetable garden, and I enjoy being outside. I do work quite a bit around the house.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

You've got to keep a dog with you at all times. A dog cannot roam. You've got to keep him in the house with you. You can't have a wild dog and expect days to go good.

I love gardens!

I'm happier in a garden.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

I grow all kinds of annuals. I have a nice perennial border in the front of the house.

I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.

I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house.

To be able to buy a plant and plant it, that's a luxury to me.

I garden in my Brooks Brothers pajamas and straw hat.

You know the best thing about having a house? You get to plant whatever you want in the yard and watch it grow.

I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't ask questions!