Gardening Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Path

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.203, Random House

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• My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing. I power wash everything: my wife, the mailman with the f-cking mail, power wash his ass, f-ck my mail up, I don't care.

  J. B. Smoove

  Wife, House, Care

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Stars, Garden, Thinking

  Interview with James Ellis, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Want, Regulation

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

  Deborah Moggach

  Garden, Mad, Three

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• What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

  Alice Walker

  Waiting, Fruit, Bears

  "Alice in Walkerland: The "PBS American Masters"". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. February 10, 2014.

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• Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.

  George P. Bush

  Aspect, Diplomacy, Underrated

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• The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Genius, Sparks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.636, Modern Library

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• there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.

  Barbara Mertz

  Garden, Soul

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• Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.

  William Howard Adams

  Art, Garden, Lost

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• There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of books, techniques, tools, chemicals, fertilizers, fancy hybrids, and expectations. Yet, that is exactly what we must do if we are to fully embrace a more spiritual form of gardening. As a part of Nature we must learn to enter our garden as if it were truly sacred, we must learn to enter with humility.

  Christopher McDowell

  Spiritual, Book, Learning

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• Beyond its practical aspects, gardening - be it of the soil or soul - can lead us on a philosophical and spiritual exploration that is nothing less than a journey into the depths of our own sacredness and the sacredness of all beings. After all, there must be something more mystical beyond the garden gate, something that satisfies the soul's attraction to beauty, peace, solace, and celebration.

  Christopher McDowell

  Beauty, Spiritual, Philosophical

  "The Sanctuary Garden: Creating a Place of Refuge in Your Yard Or Garden". Book by Christopher Forrest McDowell, 1998.

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• It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part of gardening is walking around in a daze, idly deadheading the odd dahlia, wondering where on earth to squeeze in yet another impulse buy, debating whether to move the recalcitrant artemisia one more time, or daydreaming about where to put the pergola.

  Jane Garmey

  Dream, Time, Moving

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• One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.

  Mary Norris

  Jobs, Singing, Literature

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.

  Veronique Vienne

  Feelings, Enlightenment, Ordinary

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• We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

  Vanna Bonta

  Ancestor, Universe

  "Space: what love’s got to do with it" by Vanna Bonta, www.thespacereview.com. October 25, 2004.

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• Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Yoga, Walking Meditation

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• Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Father, Rain, Garden

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.60, Faber & Faber

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