Garden Quotes - Page 9

I think gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. True gardeners are both iconographers and theologians insofar as these activities are the fruit of prayer 'without ceasing.' Likewise, true gardeners never cease to garden, not even in their sleep, because gardening is not just something they do. It is how they live.

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

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

Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul.

In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere; Let us take long walks in the open air... Let us bathe in the rivers and lakes... Let us indulge in games... Let us be more simple: simple and true in our gestures, in our words, and simple and true in our minds above all. Let us be ourselves.

Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year.

I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.

It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old you are.

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.

I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go, Holy apartments in the gardens in which the rivers flow, thank you for all your blessings and all of your miracles.

To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.

Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap.

Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.

To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.

One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.

Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection had to be given to the growing plants and animals, harvests had to be reaped, stored and divided. Thus, we might argue that it was neither leisure time nor a sedentary existence but the more rigorous demands associated with an agricultural way of life that led to great cultural changes.

I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!

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.

That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.