David Hobson Quotations

I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.

If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

To boldly grow where no one has groan before.

My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds.

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

We are laying all our eggs in one basket. I think there will be great resistance to continue to leave those rods laying around those communities.

You don't need Yucca Mountain to move spent fuel out of Chicago or out of Toledo.

another person might have been unjustly prosecuted, and for other reasons which I can't explain at this time, but will become evident in the course of time, it was his firm instructions to me that he wished to get this matter over with.

This just doesn't make sense, ... I hope it forces them to look at this stuff in the right way.

It's cool to watch them take the hook, ... They throw up quite a spray. Sometimes they do somersaults over it. They're crazy little fish.

I often acquire plants under circumstances that require me to figure out exactly what it is that I've dragged home.

His conscience got the better of him. He's feeling that the family next door needed closure. He feels that another person might have been unjustly prosecuted.

His conscience got the better of him. And he's prepared to let the law take its course.

He's feeling that the family next door needed closure.

For the corps to persuade people that it is part of the solution and not part of the problem, it will have to change its behavior, ... Continuing the practice of spreading funding across a wide range of projects in the hopes of growing the corps program will not be an acceptable answer. We have to return to a situation where the Corps of Engineers is respected for its professional engineering judgment.

The Internet is super for the theoretical/dreaming/communicating of ideas side of this wonderful pastime, but "gardening" is a verb, and getting dirt under the old fingernails can't be done by computer. I don't see that it could ever change real "gardening".