Gardening Quotes - Page 17

• I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.

  Andrew Weil

  Home, Exercise, Fans

  "10 Ways to Have a Happier Life" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Jobs, Flower, Cutting

  "The best things in life are..." by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.

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

  David Hobson

  Garden, Essentials, Surprise

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• I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

  Simon Baker

  Feels, Constructive, My Time

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

  Clive Anderson

  Therapeutic, Smelly

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• Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds, and I don't know when I shall be able to arrange things otherwise. Nor do I know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory.

  Marie Curie

  Country, Book, Writing

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• In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

  Lee Hall

  Wall, Thinking, Play

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• The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Lonely, Thinking, Thoughtful

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• Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cells, Culture, Looks

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• "We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

  Abraham Cowley

  Art, Garden, Eagles

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• I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"

  E. Nesbit

  Weed, Sweet, Stars

  Edith Nesbit, “Seed-Time And Harvest”

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• My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

  Gary Snyder

  Grandmother, Garden, Hands

  Gary Snyder (1992). “No nature: new and selected poems”, Pantheon

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• I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

  Carolyn Murphy

  Hiking, Surfing, Hats

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• One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Garden, People, Yards

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• Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

  Yisroel Salanter

  Spiritual, Bird, Choke

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• And all the times I was picking up potatoes, I did have conversations with them. Too, I did have thinks of all their growing days there in the ground, and all the things they did hear. Earth-voices are glad voices, and earth-songs come up from the ground through the plants; and in their flowering, and in the days before these days are come, they do tell the earth-songs to the wind ... I have thinks these potatoes growing here did have knowings of star-songs.

  Opal Whiteley

  Song, Stars, Thinking

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• I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

  Vigen Guroian

  Thinking, Religion, Spirit

  Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.106, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Character, Artist

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.434

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• No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  People, Stuff, Toothpaste

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

  Claude Monet

  Two, Painting, Two Things

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• To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.

  Guy Browning

  Clothes, Ordinary, Compost

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• I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Car, Culture

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• Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.

  Simon Blackburn

  Garden, May, Way

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• I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.

  Julie Moir Messervy

  Art, Nature, Garden

  Julie Moir Messervy (2007). “The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning”, p.19, Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.

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• A flower is an educated weed.

  Luther Burbank

  Weed, Nature, Flower

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