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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Walt Disney

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

David Hobson

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

Suzy Bogguss

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

Dorothy Malone

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

Penelope Keith

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

Phyllis Theroux

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Carolus Linnaeus

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Luther Burbank

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

John Harrison

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Alice Walker

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Orison Swett Marden

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

B. C. Forbes

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

George Eliot

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

Eric Morecambe

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?

Francis Cabot Lowell

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

Thomas Moore

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Alfred Austin