SEEDS & WEEDS: The Funniest Things People Have Said About GARDENING

THE FUNNIEST THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT GARDENING 307
over and over again. If there are enjoyable jobs they’re mostly enjoyable
for the result not the process.
There is no actual intellectual content to the task itself, even if there
may be in the planning and designing.
— Anne Wareham, The Bad-Tempered Gardener
The best thing about gardening is that if you put it off long enough, it
won’t be necessary.
— Unknown
A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of, every month, in
the newspapers, which catch a man’s coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in
his arm, his leg, and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson