Green Thumb Quotes

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

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

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

When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.

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 like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

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

Gardening is the instrument of grace.

I love working in the garden.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

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.

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

We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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?

I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

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

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

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

I like my garden. It sounds boring, but it's not.

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