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

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

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

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.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

When you’re all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

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.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Mickey Rourke’s character in ‚The Wrestler‘ – that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many members of my family. It was the only thing they knew. And then they would end up wrestling for a hundred bucks, go to autograph signings for two hundred bucks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

My daddy had a pocket watch that he wore at all times in court. I gave Greg the watch and showed him how Daddy used to use it.

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

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.

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