Marco Pierre White Quotes

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

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

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?

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

I'm happier in a garden.

I garden. It's very relaxing to me.

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.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

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

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

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 cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

I garden in my Brooks Brothers pajamas and straw hat.

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 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 have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.

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

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

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

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.