Gardening Quotes

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.

Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.

We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.

Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.

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

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.

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.

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

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

Computers, singing, reading, painting and gardening are my hobbies.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.

A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Use plants to bring life

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

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

Gardening is the best therapy in the world.

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

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.

I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.

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.

Nature abhors a garden.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

If I didn't believe that we had a chance of coming to power, then I would have focused on taking care of my three children or gardening.