Francis Cabot Lowell Quotes

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

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 love gardens!

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.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.

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

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

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

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

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

I garden in my Brooks Brothers pajamas and straw hat.

I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't ask questions!

I'm a flower gardener.

I like my garden. It sounds boring, but it's not.

I like weeds and hardy plants.

I'm happier in a garden.

I like flowers. In my next life, maybe I can be a gardener.

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

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.

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.