John Burnside Quotes

The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

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

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

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

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

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

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

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.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.

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

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

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

It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.

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?

There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.

Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.

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.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.