Gardening Quotes
Vera Nazarian
The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.
2673Maeve Binchy
She soon called a halt to the work. Judy's great success was that she stopped her helpers before they got tired.
4828 Lailah Gifty Akita
If every individual should plant a tree in their life time, the world will be full of trees.
4258 Michael Pollan
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
2560 Michael Pollan
The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.
1631 Michael Pollan
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space - a place not just set apart but reverberant - and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.
4542 Abraham Cowley
May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true.
3957 Bill Richardson
Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.
2769 Seth Adam Smith
A garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people; they determine its beauty
1352 Marty Rubin
No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.
3991 Cassandra Danz
Soap wasn't invented until the Romans, who also invented interesting sex. (Since my editor informs me that a gardening book is not a proper venue for discussions of interesting sex, I will go into this topic in more detail when I write my private memoirs, 'A Petunia Named Desire').
3805 Michael Pollan
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
1396 Michael Pollan
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.
2851 June Stoyer
Dandelions, like all things in nature are beautiful when you take the time to pay attention to them.
3753 Thien
Where have all the flowers of old Singapore gone? Gone, one would imagine, with the old folks and homes
4195 Carol Deppe
We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.
4688 Douglas Tallamy
One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.
3243 J.M. Coetzee
He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard and forget her children. That was why.
1847 S. Kelley Harrell
Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.
1593 S. Kelley Harrell
By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.
4057 Jessica Coupe
As I leave the garden
I take with me a renewed view,
And a quiet soul.
4567 Jamaica Kincaid
In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture - it won’t accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy’ time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.
1562 David Wheeler
Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be highly satisfying.
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