Horticulture Quotes

In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music; in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature.

Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

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

A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make headings, that's all it is. It's rather like the stupidity in a picture gallery today where you have to write under it what the scene or person is. It is equally as nonsensical as that. Therefore to talk about biodynamic gardening, biodynamic horticulture, biodynamic agriculture and the French intensive system is merely a horrible heading of terminology.

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.