Gardening Quotes - Page 15

• What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.

  Shel Silverstein

  Funny, Feelings, Beets

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• My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be a devotional practice, it may be song or poetry, it may be by gardening, it may be as an activist, scientist, or community leader. The path to restoration extends from our heart to the heart of sentient beings, and that path will be different for every person.

  Paul Hawken

  Song, Heart, Practice

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• It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their own hand at gardening and enjoy all the gifts of health, discovery, and connection a garden can bring.

  Michelle Obama

  School, Garden, Discovery

  "Excerpt: 'American Grown' by First Lady Michelle Obama", abcnews.go.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Religion, Done, Half

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• The source of nature is spirit.

  Larry Gates

  Nature, Religion, Spirit

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• Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

  Hilarie Burton

  Nails, Gloves, Dirt

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hilarie Burton", www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

  Deepak Chopra

  Religion, Identity, Spirit

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• I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream, it would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.

  Helen Mirren

  Dream, Thinking, Lovely

  "Oscar-winning Dame Helen Mirren Stirs The Tempest & Makes Us See Red This Season". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.

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• Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question of superior or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at the moment. Getting there (as they say) is not important; the wandering about in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the bayous is the whole point.

  Henry Mitchell

  Journey, Hiking, Long

  Henry Mitchell (2014). “Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

  Earl Nightingale

  Success, Sports, Golf

  "How to Change Your Life in 30 Seconds".

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• Work without contemplation is never enough.

  Douglas V. Steere

  Work, Garden, Religion

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• If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Garden, Religion, Want

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• In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.

  Jakob Bohme

  Garden, Light, Religion

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• Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

  Christian Wiman

  Garden, Religion, Backyards

  Christian Wiman (2013). “Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet”, p.147, Copper Canyon Press

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• In a field I am the absence of field.That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the space where my body has been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.

  Mark Strand

  Moving, Garden, Air

  "Keeping Things Whole" l. 14 (1969)

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• Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Garden, Imagination, Feelings

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• The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

  Marston Bates

  Photography, Nature, Science

  Marston Bates (2014). “The Nature of Natural History”, p.265, Princeton University Press

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• Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thinking, Religion, Needs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.360, Library of America

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• Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

  Charles Bowden

  Blue, Bird, Cooking

  "The Bone Garden of Desire" by Charles Bowden, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

  Nick Cave

  Dirty, Garden, Knees

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• Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers

  Bill Mollison

  Technology, Creating, Urban Renewal

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• March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.

  Mae West

  Funny, Lambs, Lions

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• The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Religion, Purpose, Sacred

  "Think Diffident". www.wired.com. December 01, 2000.

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• When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.

  Muso Soseki

  Heart, Garden, Religion

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• .... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

  Meister Eckhart

  Religion, Stones, Woods

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