George Harrison Quotes

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

I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.

I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.

I'm a real home girl.

What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.

My friends tell me I'm the most boring celebrity they know! A typical night for me is at home in California or watching movies in my pyjamas.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

I live a very simple existence when I'm not on the road. Because when I'm on the road making a movie, I'm away from home.

In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

A flower is an educated weed.

Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops, dreamed marvels of canning . . . and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced, I planted no garden at all.

Everybody should just stay at home and meditate and they'd be so much happier.

I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers." Aly propped her chin on her hand. "So does manure," she observed.

If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.

This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden