Gardening Quotes - Page 13

• I could go on and on. But that is just what gardening is, going on and on. My philistine of a husband often told with amusement how a cousin when asked when he expected to finish his garden replied 'Never, I hope'. And that, I think, applies to all true gardeners.

  Margery Fish

  Cousin, Husband, Garden

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• History is everything in gardening: With a site, weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why, when others say, "You can't do that!" you can know with deepest certainty that you can.

  Janet Macunovich

  Weather, Mystery, Plant

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• 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.

  Andrew Weil

  Garden, People, Justice

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• 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.

  Andrew Weil

  Beautiful, Selfish, Passion

  "One Simple Resolution: Gardening" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

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• Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Kindness, Flower

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• I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,
  The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Garden, Broken

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.386, Delphi Classics

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• I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

  Richard K. Diran

  Funny, Nature, Garden

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• Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

  William Cowper

  Time, Spring, Fall

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• What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?

  Thomas Huxley

  Weed, Garden, Compassion

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2004). “Evolution And Ethics”, p.47, 1st World Publishing

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• Nature abhors a garden.

  Michael Pollan

  Garden

  "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World". Book by Michael Pollan, www.nytimes.com. 2001.

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• Your garden will reveal yourself.

  Henry Mitchell

  Garden, Religion, Spirit

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• Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Garden, Soul, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.169, Xist Publishing

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• Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.

  Gilles Clement

  Attitude, Acceptance, Garden

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• Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

  Dogen

  Wall, Practice, Tree

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• People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.

  Surya Das

  Weed, Moving, Taken

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• Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

  Laurie Anderson

  Heaven, Religion, Paradise

  Song: Language Is a Virus

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• The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment, will wait and hope for the moment when it seems to achieve perfection. Awareness of when such moments are most likely helps to make them happen; they will not be entirely accidental but anticipated; everything will be planned to encourage them.

  Susan Hill

  Garden, Perfection, Waiting

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• Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Men, Garden

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• The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.

  Eliot Coleman

  Technology, Garden, Erosion

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• Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.

  Ray Bradbury

  Plato, Men, Blood

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• At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were habituated to, lit by stained glass windows, was literally awe-inspiring. Today, we're not as impressed by big buildings, so we have to go to very large mountains to experience that 'diminutive effect.'

  Michael Persinger

  Dark, Glasses, Space

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• The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

  Stephen Gardiner

  Garden, Land, Design

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• Use plants to bring life

  Douglas Wilson

  Garden, Use, Plant

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

  Suzy Bogguss

  Home, Garden, Play

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

  Jean Anouilh

  Men, Garden, Littles

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.43, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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