“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.”
— Oscar de la Renta
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
— Helen Keller
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
— Oscar Wilde
“On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.”
— Maya Angelou
“If I’m in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge — l’art d’accommoder les restes — it means gardening.”
— Christian Louboutin
