I'm not surfing much anymore but I love hiking and gardening and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work but were relevant to gardening.

My hobby is gardening I love it it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house I love cooking.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

I do the gardening.

In the world at large people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden cause and effect labor and reward are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension then the more gardens in the world the more justice the more sense is created.

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening bicycling to work doing home improvement projects and so on.

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news but in hindsight I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

I loathe gardening but I love gardens and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening but I love gardens.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination how can we be very far from the beginning?

Garden as though you will live forever.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

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

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

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.

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

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

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

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