Gardening Quotes - Page 23

• I'm interested in acting as much as I'm interested in gardening. I want to garden, eventually. I want to learn how to do a lot of things. I've always wanted to learn how to paint, too. I'd like to try everything, but music is my reason for living.

  Bradford Cox

  Garden, Trying, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

  Candace Wheeler

  Perfect, Creative, Joy

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.

  Barbara Damrosch

  Weed, Grows

  Barbara Damrosch (2003). “The Garden Primer”, p.54, Rodale

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• A garden is to be enjoyed, and should satisfy the mind and not only the eye of the beholder. Sounds such as the rustle of bamboo and the dripping of water, scents and sensations such as grass or gravel or stone underfoot, appeal to the emotions and play a part in the total impression.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Eye, Garden, Play

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• The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best space available and are so arranged and tended that they are seen to their advantage, each in relation to the other. Every plant, of whatever shape or size, should be chosen not only for its individual merits but for its power to enhance the charms of neighbouring plants by contrast or combination in foliage or in flower colour.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Flower, Garden, Space

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• A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.

  Amy N. Stewart

  Children, Garden, Firsts

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• Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them.

  Margery Fish

  Baby, Important, Quality

  Margery Fish (2011). “We Made a Garden”, p.39, Pavilion Books

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• At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Home, Relax

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

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• I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future.

  Jean Hersey

  Believe, Years, Promise

  Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”

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• When you plant early, you bring spring early.

  Jean Hersey

  Spring, Plant

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Garden, Weather, Climate

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• it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Color, Green, Backgrounds

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• Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Garden, Years, Generations

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

  Emily Oster

  Birth Defects, Risk, Increase

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• For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum of horticultural wisdom and practical advice, Our Life in Gardens is at once literate, learned, sensible, and, often, sheer luscious poetry. There are delights to be sampled on every page. From a cultivated life, they have brought forth, once again, a cultivated book.

  Philip Gambone

  Book, Garden, Years

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• Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Children, Things In Life, Having Children

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• There is no gardening without humility

  Alfred Austin

  Humility

  Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

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• Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

  Claude Monet

  Painting

  Claude Monet (2007). “Monet: a visit to Giverny”

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• I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.

  Udo Kier

  Stars, Sky, Cooking

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• Gardening is all about optimism.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Optimism

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.56, Conari Press

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• ...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart of the southern Utah wilderness-then we can hear the voice of our conscience. If we listen to that voice, it asks us to be conscious. And if we become conscious we choose to live lives of consequence.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Dog, Live Life, Heart

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• Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.

  Allen Lacy

  Attention, Phenomenon

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• I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.

  Allen Lacy

  Mean, Common, New Friends

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• Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

  Allen Lacy

  Divides

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• I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Book, Teaching

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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