Gardening Quotes

I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.

Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

I have heard people say, "I garden in lieu of therapy, but therapy would be cheaper." I believe gardening's worth the price since it's at least as effective in curing head and heart of what ails us.

When you plant early, you bring spring early.

Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!

Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.

The source of nature is spirit.

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.

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.

My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.

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.

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

Gardening is all about optimism.

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

Gardening is the instrument of grace.

Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC.

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

I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.

We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

Gardening symbolizes our race's primordial acceptance of a responsibility and role in rectifying the harm done to the creation through sin.

In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.

Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters

Perhaps we are not really sinners in the hands of an angry God, after all. Perhaps we are all more like seedlings in the hands of a wise gardener.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

We’re all given gifts in life, it’s what we do with them that shows us what we’ve learned.

At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.

You don’t have to do it all. If unrushing your life feels overwhelming or impossible, consider that it is impossible for you. That’s why we need God. Where you can’t, He already has.

A garden is made of hope.

By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.

Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.

I tend the flowers of my mindWatering our memories as they bloom

Novels and gardens, " she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.

Inspiration surrounds us, the creation is our responsibility as artists.-Lyn Crain

We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

Spring time is nature at its best.

I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along.

The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us.

Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.

What do the words “plant” and “plan” have in common? Yes, correct, it’s the word PLAN. Mind Gardening is a mindful thinking and planning philosophy.

Garden design is all about concealment and surprise.

Books are like plants. They're decorations that are alive.

As I leave the gardenI take with me a renewed view, And a quiet soul.

What do the words “plant” and “plan” have in common? Yes, correct, it’s the word PLAN.Mind Gardening is a mindful thinking and planning philosophy.