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

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.

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

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

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

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Gardening is not a rational act.

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