Maynard James Keenan Quotes

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.

I'm a flower gardener.

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

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.

My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.

I'm really into gardening.

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.

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

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 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.

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

When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?

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.

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

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

Gardening is not a rational act.

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

It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

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

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.