Authors:

Gardening Quotes - Page 6

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

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?

Eleanor Perenyi
Flower, Years, Gardening

Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires a certain goodness on the part of the gardener: care, humility, patience, and respect, for example.

David E. Cooper
Humility, Practice, Gardening
Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

David Attenborough
Gardening, Television, Chef
"David Attenborough criticises BBC schedule". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2008.

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.

Charles Saatchi
Art, Criticism, Gardening
Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

The destruction of all Shadowhunters' said Scott. 'I rather thought you knew that. It isn't a gardening club.

Cassandra Clare
Gardening, Clubs, Destruction
Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.677, Simon and Schuster

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.

Barbara Kingsolver
Childhood, Religion, Gardening
Barbara Kingsolver, Annie Griffiths Belt (2002). “Last stand: America's virgin lands”, National Geographic

Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.

Barbara Damrosch
Weed, Gardening, Grows
Barbara Damrosch (2003). “The Garden Primer”, p.54, Rodale

Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.

Allen Lacy
Gardening, Attention, Phenomenon

In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.

Allen Lacy
Offering, Mind, Gardening

I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.

Allen Lacy
Mean, Gardening, Common

Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

Alexander Pope
Religion, Gardening, Genius
'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 57

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.

Adam Ant
Reality, House, Gardening
"You wouldn't know him from Adam" by Adam Higginbotham, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2002.

You May Also Like: