J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Gardens

Quotes about: Gardens

• The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hard Work, Garden, Hands

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.881, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Simple, Garden, Mushrooms

  Letter to Deborah Webster, 25 Oct. 1958

• I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Garden, Tree, Dull Days

  Letter to Deborah Webster, 25 Oct. 1958

• Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Garden, Roots, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.589, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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