Garden Quotes - Page 7

• Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

  Alfred Austin

  Horse, Food, Journey

  "Fictional character: Alex Blake". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 5: "The Good Earth", www.imdb.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing.

  Shirley Hibberd

  Art, Nature, Design

  James Shirley Hibberd (1871). “The amateur's flower garden”, p.223

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• The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

  Margaret Carlson

  Victory, Generations, Sugar

  Margaret Carlson (2003). “Anyone Can Grow Up: How George Bush and I Made it to the White House”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

  E. P. Thompson

  Peace, Movement, Prisoner

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• Work without contemplation is never enough.

  Douglas V. Steere

  Work, Religion, Spirit

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• Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

  Christian Wiman

  Religion, Backyards, Tripping

  Christian Wiman (2013). “Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet”, p.147, Copper Canyon Press

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• In a field I am the absence of field.That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the space where my body has been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.

  Mark Strand

  Moving, Air, Space

  "Keeping Things Whole" l. 14 (1969)

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• For optimal health, we need body and spirit, exercise (ming) and meditation, awareness of the inner world and the outer. In other words, health requires balance and moderation. The goal of qigong may be summarized as xing ming shuang xiu,spirit and body equally refined and cultivated. Cultivate your whole being, as you would cultivate a garden with attention, care, and even love.

  Ken Cohen

  Exercise, Qigong, Goal

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• From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

  Robert Breault

  Aunt, Thinking, Long Ago

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• I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed.

  Ian Mcewan

  Father, Growth, Way

  "The Cement Garden". Book by Ian McEwan, 1978.

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• I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.

  Claire Tomalin

  Past, Years, Trying

  "'It's about death as much as it is about life'". Interview with Dominic Murphy, Martyn Cox, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.

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• Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Letting Go, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jun 27, 2013

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  The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Art, Educational, Writing

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (1925). “In the Garden ...”

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• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, God, Spiritual

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

  Thomas Berry

  Religion, Spirit, Mystery

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• What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.

  William Lawson

  Tree, Religion, Delight

  Gervase Markham, William Lawson (1668). “A Way to Get Wealth: Containing Six Principall Vocations, Or Callings, in which Every Good Husband Or House-wife May Lawfully Imploy Themselves ...”

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• The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

  Larry Dossey

  Life, Spiritual, Enlightenment

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• If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

  Bill Watterson

  Life, Fun, The End Of The Day

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• Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.

  Henry Mitchell

  Doe, Interfere

  Henry Mitchell (1999). “One Man's Garden”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

  May Sarton

  Flower, Greedy, Plant

  May Sarton (2015). “Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year”, p.188, Open Road Media

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• Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

  Henry Mitchell

  Confused, Religion, Paradise

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.1, Indiana University Press

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• The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

  H. E. Bates

  Artist, Satisfied, Gardener

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• The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Desire, Doe, Obsession

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• Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that one who deeply respects his neighborhood and everyday world in which he lives will be shown the greatest of all worlds.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Believe, Everyday, World

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