Ruskin Bond Quotes

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

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.

My wife's a gardener. I'd put Astroturf down everywhere, but I get outvoted one to one every year.

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.

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.

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

I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.

I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

I just like to sit and admire my garden; it's so well kept by my gardener and my girlfriend.

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.

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

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 grow all kinds of annuals. I have a nice perennial border in the front of the house.

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

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.

I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

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.

It does seem to me that the British in particular, British horticultural literature and television programmes, focus a huge amount on how we garden and hardly at all on why we garden.

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.