Gardening Quotes

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

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.

No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.

Gardening is all about optimism. I put a seed in the ground. I consistently tend it, confident I will see the results, in time, of the nurture I have provided.

Nature abhors a garden.

Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

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.

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt.

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.

Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.

The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.

Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.

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

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

Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all.

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.

To garden is a solitary act.

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

It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.

There is no gardening without humility

Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

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

There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

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.

Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.

In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.

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

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

The destruction of all Shadowhunters' said Scott. 'I rather thought you knew that. It isn't a gardening club.

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.

I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul.

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

gardening is a madness and a rapture.

The market is the best garden.

I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream, it would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.