Sylvie Guillem Quotes

I'm really into gardening.

I'm huge on spring and summer gardening. I'm really proud of my perennial beds. That's a passion of mine.

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

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

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

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.

Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.

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.

I'm a flower gardener.

Working with the earth is peaceful for me.

I like gardening.

I used to laugh at my friends who garden, but I now garden. You don't even feel like you're exercising. You're having fun, and you're being healthy at the same time.

I think that's my strength, that I am an amateur gardener who loves gardening. I've read about it, I've written about it, I've done it all my life but at heart, I'm just a passionate amateur gardener.

What's not to aspire to about how to grow your own fruit and vegetables and plants, and then being creative?

Gardening is seen as a pastime that is almost like belonging to the Church of England - a sign of maturity and wisdom and right thinking.

I'm a gardener, and I love to plant.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

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

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.