Growing Things Quotes - Page 2

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

Isadora Duncan

Crush, Children, Joy

Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden cannot be made by somebody who has not developed the capacity to know and love growing things.

Russell Page

Heart, Garden, And Love

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Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.

George Parsons Lathrop

Life, Air, Wings

George Parsons Lathrop (1875). “Rose and Roof-tree: Poems”, p.16

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...To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I realize there's nothing quite as satisfying as eating food that you've pulled up from the ground and that's why, at the height of the planting season, I bury cans of tomato soup in my backyard and dig them up in late spring.

Ellen DeGeneres

Spring, Advice, Backyards

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..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow, while through it all the cold sea wore its face of storms and death and sunken hopes...and yet unseen beneath the waves a warmer current ran that, in its time, would bring the spring.

Susanna Kearsley

Song, Lying, Spring

Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.708, Allison & Busby Ltd

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