Gardening Quotes - Page 16

• Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Father, Rain, Garden

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.60, Faber & Faber

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• Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.

  George P. Bush

  Aspect, Diplomacy, Underrated

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• Beyond its practical aspects, gardening - be it of the soil or soul - can lead us on a philosophical and spiritual exploration that is nothing less than a journey into the depths of our own sacredness and the sacredness of all beings. After all, there must be something more mystical beyond the garden gate, something that satisfies the soul's attraction to beauty, peace, solace, and celebration.

  Christopher McDowell

  Beauty, Spiritual, Philosophical

  "The Sanctuary Garden: Creating a Place of Refuge in Your Yard Or Garden". Book by Christopher Forrest McDowell, 1998.

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• It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part of gardening is walking around in a daze, idly deadheading the odd dahlia, wondering where on earth to squeeze in yet another impulse buy, debating whether to move the recalcitrant artemisia one more time, or daydreaming about where to put the pergola.

  Jane Garmey

  Dream, Time, Moving

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• My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing. I power wash everything: my wife, the mailman with the f-cking mail, power wash his ass, f-ck my mail up, I don't care.

  J. B. Smoove

  Wife, House, Care

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• What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Path

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.203, Random House

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• I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

  Claude Monet

  Two, Painting, Two Things

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• The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

  Stephen Gardiner

  Garden, Land, Design

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• At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were habituated to, lit by stained glass windows, was literally awe-inspiring. Today, we're not as impressed by big buildings, so we have to go to very large mountains to experience that 'diminutive effect.'

  Michael Persinger

  Dark, Glasses, Space

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• Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.

  Ray Bradbury

  Plato, Men, Blood

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• The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.

  Eliot Coleman

  Technology, Garden, Erosion

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• Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Men, Garden

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• The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment, will wait and hope for the moment when it seems to achieve perfection. Awareness of when such moments are most likely helps to make them happen; they will not be entirely accidental but anticipated; everything will be planned to encourage them.

  Susan Hill

  Garden, Perfection, Waiting

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• Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

  Laurie Anderson

  Heaven, Religion, Paradise

  Song: Language Is a Virus

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• People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.

  Surya Das

  Weed, Moving, Taken

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• Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

  Dogen

  Wall, Practice, Tree

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• Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.

  Gilles Clement

  Attitude, Acceptance, Garden

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• Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Garden, Soul, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.169, Xist Publishing

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• Your garden will reveal yourself.

  Henry Mitchell

  Garden, Religion, Spirit

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• Nature abhors a garden.

  Michael Pollan

  Garden

  "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World". Book by Michael Pollan, www.nytimes.com. 2001.

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• What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?

  Thomas Huxley

  Weed, Garden, Compassion

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2004). “Evolution And Ethics”, p.47, 1st World Publishing

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• I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

  Helena Rutherfurd Ely

  Weed, Garden, Thinking

  Helena Rutherfurd Ely (1999). “A Woman's Hardy Garden”

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• Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends. There's never a shortage of things to do, no limit to the lessons that can be learned, especially for children, and there's always plenty of credit to go around, even for the mistakes.

  Steven Wilson

  Friendship, Children, Mistake

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• Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Beauty, Luxury, People

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• Use plants to bring life

  Douglas Wilson

  Garden, Use, Plant

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