Ree Drummond Quotes

I don't have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

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 still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.

I was a landscaper for three years and loved it.

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

I don't know too many kids who ask to weed the garden.

I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.

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 wear sunglasses because of the glare of the spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold in the U.K.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

We have a lot of property and we take care of it mostly ourselves, so that's what I spend a lot of time doing, which I love because I'm outside.

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.

My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

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

I do the gardening.

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

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.

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.