Gardening Quotes - Page 4

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

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

there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.

I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.

Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.

To garden is a solitary act.

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

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.

Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.

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

There is no gardening without humility

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

Gardening is the instrument of grace.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

When you plant early, you bring spring early.

People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.

Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.