Henry David Thoreau Quotes

My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.

I don't have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

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

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie.

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.

I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

In a nursery, if you don't take care of those plants, your profits get lost real quickly. You have to weed. You have to water. You have to nurture. Also, you have to take care of your employees in such a way that they do the same.

I don't know too many kids who ask to weed the garden.

I love the farm, I love growing stuff.

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.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

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

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'm huge on spring and summer gardening. I'm really proud of my perennial beds. That's a passion of mine.

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.

What's not to aspire to about how to grow your own fruit and vegetables and plants, and then being creative?

We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing!

We don't have to feel negative about weeds. They're a part of life. We need to see them, acknowledge them, focus on the solution, and immediately do whatever it takes to eliminate their influence from our lives.

Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.