Gardening Quotes - Page 3

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

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.

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

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.

A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

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

When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

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

The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.

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

Use plants to bring life

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.

The beauty of moving naturally, i.e. walking and gardening, is they're low impact. You're less likely to fall down and break a hip. Setting up your life so you're nudged into general physical activity every day is a strategy for your entire life from age 10 to 100.

Gardening is the best therapy in the world.

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt.

Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!

Nature abhors a garden.

No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.

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.

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.