Gardening Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• As for vegetables, I do not consider a plot of ground devoted to them worthy of the honorable name of garden. Vegetables are, of course, a part of gardening, but the least, the last, -for those who do not have to raise them, the most dishonorable part.

  Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

  Garden, Vegetables, Names

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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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• marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who grow them in Fairacre say, as they hand them over: 'Funny thing! I don't care for them myself. In fact, none of the family likes them!' But still they plant them. It must be the fascination of seeing such a wonderful return for one small seed, that keeps marrow-growers at their dubious task.

  Miss Read

  Doors, Hands, Funny Things

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• People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries" rather than people who are going to get jobs in the system. And that is a huge change, a cultural revolution.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Jobs, Children, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity and order, proportion, colour and utility, and, furthermore, be capable of arousing feelings of grandeur, gaiety, sadness, wildness, domesticity, surprise and secrecy.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Sadness, Garden, Views

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• I struggle sometimes superficially with my management or with my own career about how much time I spend traveling or giving myself away to promote my music or myself when I'd rather be gardening or surfing or being at home with my loved ones. And everyone struggles with that; everyone struggles with having to go to work. And I struggle with how humankind ended up this way.

  Jason Mraz

  Struggle, Home, Careers

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 01, 2014.

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• I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

  Lauren Bowles

  Writing, Creative, Actors

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• you mustn't rely on your flowers to make your garden attractive. A good bone structure must come first, with an intelligent use of evergreen plants so that the garden is always clothed, no matter what time of year. Flowers are an added delight, but a good garden is the garden you enjoy looking at even in the depths of winter.

  Margery Fish

  Flower, Winter, Intelligent

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• I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Passion, Adore, Time Off

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Mother, Blessed, Flower

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• There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Vegetables, Gathering, Radishes

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• gardening is a madness and a rapture.

  Faith Sullivan

  Madness, Rapture

  Faith Sullivan (2012). “What a Woman Must Do: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

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• People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.

  Anna Bartlett Warner

  People, Littles, Knows

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• Fair, rich confusion is all the aim of an old-fashioned flower garden, and the greater the confusion, the richer. You want to come upon mignonnette in unexpected places, and to find sprays of heliotrope in close consultation with your roses, and geraniums sporting their uniforms like gay recruits off duty.

  Anna Bartlett Warner

  Flower, Gay, Garden

  Anna Bartlett Warner (1872). “Gardening by Myself”, p.64

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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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• My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mom, Children, Lazy

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two without a run or a bike ride or something, I start to get kind of itchy and antsy.

  Mark Deklin

  Running, Reading, Exercise

  "Mark Deklin: On Love, Parenthood, and Making a Difference". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.

  Marion Dudley Cran

  Flower, Heart, Fate

  Marion Dudley Cran (1913). “The Garden of Ignorance: The Experiences of a Woman in a Garden”

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