Antoni Porowski Quotes

I have always been fascinated by plants. I have always preferred plants to human beings. They give me an enormous amount of solace.

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

I love gardens!

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

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 flower gardener.

Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.

I was more of, like, into butterflies, insects, playing out in the yard, planting flowers. I was really into plants.

I appreciate nature as well and everything green.

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

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.

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

I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

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

The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.

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.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

When it comes to Washington, most people tend to think first of politics. But Washington is also a geographic and physical place. It is, for instance, one of the few cities of the world where you can talk endlessly about trees.

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Use plants to bring life.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

The garden is my second profession. It's 22 hectares, which is a big garden. I really need it, going from the flower garden, the shrubs and the trees, the vegetable garden, all these things.