Ron Finley Quotes

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.

gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

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.

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

I am a gardener, I have a big green thumb, and I can take care of these plants really easily because they are all fake.

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

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

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.

My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.

Gardening is the instrument of grace.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.