“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”
Quotes about gardening
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“Use plants to bring life.”
“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”
“When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.”
“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.”
“A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.”
“I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.”
“Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.”
“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”
“Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.”
“If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.”
“I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.”
“Garden as though you will live forever.”
“I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.”
“One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?”
“There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.”
“I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.”
“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.”
“I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.”
“My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.”
“In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.”
“I do the gardening.”
“I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.”
“My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.”