1.
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
Claude Monet
2.
The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.
Gertrude Jekyll
3.
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
Luis Barragan
5.
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.
Jane Pauley
6.
What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.
Shel Silverstein
7.
Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.
Vita Sackville-West
8.
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.
Allen Lacy
9.
I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.
Vigen Guroian
10.
I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.
Steven Cojocaru
12.
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.
Wayne Winterrowd
14.
But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.
Vita Sackville-West
15.
Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.
Yisroel Salanter
16.
God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
Angelus Silesius
17.
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.
Vita Sackville-West
18.
Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
Laurie Anderson
20.
I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!
Steven Wright
21.
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.'
Ricky Gervais
23.
much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.
Patience Strong
24.
Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.
Theodore Roethke
25.
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
Alice B. Toklas
27.
What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
Roy Rogers
28.
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.
Emily Dickinson
29.
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
Timothy Leary
30.
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.
Jack Kornfield
32.
The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.
N. Scott Momaday
34.
To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.
Guy Browning
36.
.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.
Meister Eckhart
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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.
Thomas Traherne
38.
gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.
Patience Strong
39.
I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.
Lars von Trier
40.
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.
Ken Thompson
41.
There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
Vita Sackville-West
42.
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.
Gates McFadden
43.
Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface
Toby Hemenway
44.
Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.
Claude Monet
46.
Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life
Alan Titchmarsh
47.
I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
Dorothy Malone
48.
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.
Alice Walker
49.
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.
Evagrius Ponticus
50.
Computers, singing, reading, painting and gardening are my hobbies.
Arfa Karim