Gardening Quotes

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.

A garden always has a point.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.

Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

A garden is a friend you can visit any time.

I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!

You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say 'I did that.'

Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

The garden that is finished is dead.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

To dwell is to garden.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.

Garden as though you will live forever.

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.

gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

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

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.

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

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

Gardening is not a rational act.

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

Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

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.

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.