Alexander Smith Quotes

I love gardens!

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?

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!

I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.

I'm happier in a garden.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

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.

I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden is always the story of a person.

I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.

Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.

There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

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

I'm really into gardening.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

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.

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

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.

It does seem to me that the British in particular, British horticultural literature and television programmes, focus a huge amount on how we garden and hardly at all on why we garden.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

I garden. It's very relaxing to me.

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?