I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.

America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.

I think most marriages, mine included, you're constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it.

I've always thought of L.A. as the modern version of 'The Garden of Earthly Delights.'

I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.

I get around nature. I have a vegetable garden, and I enjoy being outside. I do work quite a bit around the house.

Designing a game can be like a Japanese garden. It's not what you put in but how much you take away.

I spend most money on my garden.

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.

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

Well we have a tiny garden, it's like a postage stamp, so generally we try to get out to the parks in London as much as possible.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

I'm here at Madison Square Garden as world champion and have a world champion's mentality, the pressures on to defend my belt - this is what champions do.

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.

Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.