Vita Sackville-West Gardening Quotations

There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ...

The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.