Gardening Pleasure Quotes

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.

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.

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

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.

They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

I have an organic garden and love being able to say, 'I'm going to see what I can pick to throw in my salad.'

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

My vegetable patch is my pride and joy.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

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

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.