Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

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

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

I do the gardening.

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.

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

I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.

Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens.

I love to prune my roses. That's the one thing I really feel I do pretty well. Other things I usually, because I travel so much, leave to my gardeners who know what I love. But I do love to prune them, because you forget everything else. It's like if you're a painter, you can forget everything else while you're doing it.

My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable - it would be weeding the strawberries, mowing the grass.

We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise.

Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.

I was a landscaper for three years and loved it.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

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.

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

I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.

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

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk.

I'm a flower gardener.

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