John Betjeman Quotes

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

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

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.

Pubs would be number one. And black cabs and cabbies - moody cabbies always crack me up. And the other thing I love is the parks: the parks around London don't get enough airtime - I think they're sensational, and when spring hits, the first thing I'll do is go to the park.

I love gardens!

When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

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 haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.

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 nature like nothing else. Before I moved to Switzerland, my home was a flat in London with a garden. In those snatched moments away from dance, I did typical weekend things like pruning, planting, and weeding. I planted fruit trees and even had a vegetable garden, but I wasn't around enough, so it was a disaster.

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

The garden is something I always try to get into, but it always beats me.

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

I'm a huge garden and landscape fanatic.

A lot of the flowers I like are weeds. Oh, and dandelions, but they're a weed, too.

I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.

Gardening is one of my enduring, favourite, and most rewarding pastimes.

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

I love the quiet forest that stands between my lab and my home.

I'm always surrounded by crazy people, but when I come back to the country I'm into my plants, I love gardening, I love bird watching and I absolutely love nature.

The divide between a 'wild' plant and what is suitable for the garden is unnatural and meaningless. Gardens begin and end in the mind, and the Western way of thinking is not good at accommodating that.

I tell you what, if you live in Spokane, I hope you wake up every day and you're thankful for the weather, for the trees, for the colors, for the greenery, for cars that stop when you're running and you go to cross the road and they stop. I love it.

Gardening is seen as a pastime that is almost like belonging to the Church of England - a sign of maturity and wisdom and right thinking.

I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.