Ken Livingstone Quotes

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.

I'm really into gardening.

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

My vegetable patch is my pride and joy.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

I think that's my strength, that I am an amateur gardener who loves gardening. I've read about it, I've written about it, I've done it all my life but at heart, I'm just a passionate amateur gardener.

My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable - it would be weeding the strawberries, mowing the grass.

The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.

I do the gardening.

I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way.

Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.

When I'm down, I talk to myself a lot. I look crazy because I'm constantly having an argument with myself.

Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens.

I'm a flower gardener.

I'm not a gardener. I don't have the consistency for gardening, and I have barely enough for an orchard. I don't embarrass myself. You have to be there tending and weeding. With orchards, you can go through negligent periods and recover.

I like gardening.

I realised quite early that by the time I articulate my thoughts into words, I'm on to another thought. And what comes out wasn't what I thought of exactly. So not talking was a better option.

Gardening does so much for your brain. You're learning how a process works, and how important it is to do everything right so that you can eventually enjoy a tomato three months later. I've always been patient, but gardening really helps you with that.

I like to garden, particularly mowing grass.

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