Gardening Quotes - Page 2

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

The garden that is finished is dead.

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.

To dwell is to garden.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Computers, singing, reading, painting and gardening are my hobbies.

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.

Gardening is not a rational act.

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

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

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