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

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

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

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.

I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.

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

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

Garden as though you will live forever.

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.