Gardening And God Quotes

• God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Garden, Firsts

  Essays "Of Gardens" (1625)

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• The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

  Alfred Austin

  Heart, Garden, Hands

  "Growing with the Seasons: A Sharing of Insights Into the Creative Aspects of Organic Gardening". Book by Frank Giannangelo and Vicky Giannangelo, July 1, 2008.

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• Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

  Luther Burbank

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, God, Lonely

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Garden, Religion, Pulling Weeds

  "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

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• I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

  George Washington Carver

  Love, God, Nature

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• Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.

  Julie Moir Messervy

  Garden, Earth, Wonderful

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• A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Patience, Teacher

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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  Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

  May Sarton

  Life, Patience, Nature

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

  Robert Breault

  Believe, Garden, Evidence Of God

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• I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

  Alice Sebold

  Garden, Needs, Loses

  "Above and beyond". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2002.

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• Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, People, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1801). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.244

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• I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Garden, Thinking, Religion

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• I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

  Frank Frankfort Moore

  Garden, Thinking, Voice

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• No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Culture, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.6

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• In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

  Alfred Austin

  Educational, Humility, Garden

  Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

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• A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Ambition, Garden, Plants Growing

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• Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Beautiful, Garden, Sight

  History of England (1911) "The Glory of the Garden"

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• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Family, Children, Flower

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.37, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Educational, Book

  To Varro, in "Ad Familiares" IX, 4,

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• A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Weed, Nature

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• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Garden, Perfection

  Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Love, Garden, Jekyll

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