Gardening Quotes - Page 12

• I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

  Jasper Fforde

  Garden, Six Months, Hackers

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Morning, Garden, Years

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.67, Penguin

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• Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ideas, Momentum, Stories

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• The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

  Luther Burbank

  Love, Knowledge, Garden

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• Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

  Emo Philips

  Block, Suffering, Myth

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• I have heard people say, "I garden in lieu of therapy, but therapy would be cheaper." I believe gardening's worth the price since it's at least as effective in curing head and heart of what ails us.

  Janet Macunovich

  Believe, Heart, Garden

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• Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Flower, Garden, Unhappy

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• A garden is the best alternative therapy.

  Germaine Greer

  Garden, Religion, Alternatives

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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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• If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

  Arthur Smith

  Falling In Love, Garden, Long

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• People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.

  John Miller

  Wisdom, People, Solitude

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• You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say 'I did that.'

  Ricky Gervais

  Funny Inspirational, World, Tables

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Cott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• 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

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• The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.

  Thomas Moore

  Music, Garden, Soul

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• I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.

  Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

  Men, Garden, Essentials

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• I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

  Dorothy Malone

  Horse, Grandchildren, Cotton

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought.

  William Morris

  Flower, Thinking, Should Have

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners. . . . Gardening seems to me a kind of admission of defeat. . . . Man was made for better things than pruning his rose trees. The state of mind of the confirmed gardener seems to me as reprehensible as that of the confirmed alcoholic. Both have capitulated to the world. Both have become lotus eaters and drifters.

  Colin Wilson

  Strong, Men, Garden

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• It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking... and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs, perennials and ground-covers, with bulbs... This has been called gardening in four layers, and I believe it to be the most satisfying form of gardening.

  Graham Stuart Thomas

  Real, Believe, Dwarves

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• History is everything in gardening: With a site, weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why, when others say, "You can't do that!" you can know with deepest certainty that you can.

  Janet Macunovich

  Weather, Mystery, Plant

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

  Allen Lacy

  Offering, Mind, Five Senses

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• I could go on and on. But that is just what gardening is, going on and on. My philistine of a husband often told with amusement how a cousin when asked when he expected to finish his garden replied 'Never, I hope'. And that, I think, applies to all true gardeners.

  Margery Fish

  Cousin, Husband, Garden

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• The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.

  Lucan

  Air, Sea, Sky

  Lucan (1853). “The Pharsalia of Lucan”, p.362

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• I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Ants, Tractors

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• Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Wall, Men

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