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A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.

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.

I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.

I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.