I have a garden in my backyard that’s completely organic, which I’m very proud of.

Gardening is not a rational act.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

If you can’t eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don’t bring it.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

I personally have stopped flying. I have stopped eating meat and dairy.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

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

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

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

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well – it’s good for the environment and to be fair it’s also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

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

If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.

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

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

What I’m always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don’t keep buying just for the sake of it.

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

I have a company, and I’ve got to think about that. I’m trying to do my best there, and that’s a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I’ve always been one to save everything – I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it’s in the blood.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.