Best 202 quotes in «gardening quotes» category

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them.

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

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

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

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

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

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

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.

Gardening is the best therapy in the world.

Gardening is the instrument of grace.

Garden as though you will live forever.

gardening is a madness and a rapture.

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.

Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.

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

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

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.

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.

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

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!

I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.

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

History is everything in gardening: With a site, weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why, when others say, "You can't do that!" you can know with deepest certainty that you can.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I - well, I wouldn't say prayed over, but pleaded with, cajoled. A rhododendron that hadn't bloomed for six years was flatly told it would be removed the following year if there were no flowers. Need I say that it has bloomed profusely ever since?

I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than the other. I also did a milk round for a day. It was awful. I was a very surly milkman, because it was very cold, very dark and very early. I am a lark, not an owl, but not in winter when it's chilly. Apart from that I went straight into gardening at 15.

I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

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.

I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not?

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

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

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

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 put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.

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.

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

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

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.

One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.

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.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.