Gardening Quotes - Page 13

• All spiritual experiences are sensations in the body. They are simply a graded series of sensations, beginning with the solidity of earth and passing gradually, in full consciousness, through liquidness and the emanation of heat to that of a total vibration before reaching the Void.

  Sri Anirvan

  Spiritual, Soul, Religion

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• I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

  Adam Ant

  Reality, House, Acting

  "You wouldn't know him from Adam" by Adam Higginbotham, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2002.

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• I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"

  E. Nesbit

  Weed, Sweet, Stars

  Edith Nesbit, “Seed-Time And Harvest”

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• "We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

  Abraham Cowley

  Art, Garden, Eagles

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• I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

  Carolyn Murphy

  Hiking, Surfing, Hats

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• My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mom, Children, Lazy

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two without a run or a bike ride or something, I start to get kind of itchy and antsy.

  Mark Deklin

  Running, Reading, Exercise

  "Mark Deklin: On Love, Parenthood, and Making a Difference". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

  Gary Snyder

  Grandmother, Garden, Hands

  Gary Snyder (1992). “No nature: new and selected poems”, Pantheon

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• I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

  Lauren Bowles

  Writing, Creative, Actors

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• I struggle sometimes superficially with my management or with my own career about how much time I spend traveling or giving myself away to promote my music or myself when I'd rather be gardening or surfing or being at home with my loved ones. And everyone struggles with that; everyone struggles with having to go to work. And I struggle with how humankind ended up this way.

  Jason Mraz

  Struggle, Home, Careers

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 01, 2014.

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• One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Garden, People, Yards

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• I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.

  Scott Cohen

  Sports, Reading, Rocks

  Interview with Kale Slade, www.movievine.com. December 19, 2011.

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• Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

  Yisroel Salanter

  Spiritual, Bird, Choke

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• And all the times I was picking up potatoes, I did have conversations with them. Too, I did have thinks of all their growing days there in the ground, and all the things they did hear. Earth-voices are glad voices, and earth-songs come up from the ground through the plants; and in their flowering, and in the days before these days are come, they do tell the earth-songs to the wind ... I have thinks these potatoes growing here did have knowings of star-songs.

  Opal Whiteley

  Song, Stars, Thinking

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• Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Yoga, Walking Meditation

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• I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

  Vigen Guroian

  Thinking, Religion, Spirit

  Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.106, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Character, Artist

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.434

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• No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  People, Stuff, Toothpaste

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cells, Culture, Looks

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• I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.

  Marion Dudley Cran

  Flower, Heart, Fate

  Marion Dudley Cran (1913). “The Garden of Ignorance: The Experiences of a Woman in a Garden”

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• I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than the other. I also did a milk round for a day. It was awful. I was a very surly milkman, because it was very cold, very dark and very early. I am a lark, not an owl, but not in winter when it's chilly. Apart from that I went straight into gardening at 15.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Dark, Winter, Owl

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Cat, Should Have, Nine

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• Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Successful, Taste, Wealth

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• I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Art, Nice, Long

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• Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Art, Writing, Creativity

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