Gardening Quotes - Page 17

• I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with

  Suzy Bogguss

  Home, Garden, Play

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• Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

  David Hobson

  Life, Laughter, Two

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• We belong to no cult. We are not Nature Lovers. We don't love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is simply something indispensable, like air and light and water, that we accept as necessary to living, and the nearer we can get to it the happier we are.

  Louise Dickinson Rich

  Life, Nature, Garden

  Louise (Dickinson) Rich (1971). “The peninsula”

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• When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Nature, Citizens

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

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• I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,
  The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Garden, Broken

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.386, Delphi Classics

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• From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities as hiking, walking, fishing, beach play, and gardening, according to a study by Sandra Hofferth at the University of Maryland.

  Richard Louv

  Beach, Children, Fishing

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.34, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

  Alexander Pope

  Religion, Genius, Earth

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 57

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• The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Real, Earth, Dirt

  Texas Bix Bender (1999). “Don't Throw in the Trowel”, Gramercy Books

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• Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

  Russell Page

  Garden, Earth, Natural

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• So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sweet, Flower, Sky

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.144

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• If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Prayer, Men, Landscape

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• The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Religion, Important, Littles

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 46, 1799.

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• The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

  Seungsahn

  Girl, Dancing, Water

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• The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Religion, Purpose, Sacred

  "Think Diffident". www.wired.com. December 01, 2000.

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• Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Garden, Woods, Neglected

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• When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Past, Garden

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path

  Jean Anouilh

  Men, Garden, Littles

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.43, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Responsibility, Garden, Essentials

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Division Of Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

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• 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden cannot be made by somebody who has not developed the capacity to know and love growing things.

  Russell Page

  Heart, Garden, And Love

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• Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.

  William Cowper

  Strength, Home, Garden

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.255

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• Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Work, Garden, Hands

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

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• Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

  William Cowper

  Time, Spring, Fall

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• I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

  Richard K. Diran

  Funny, Nature, Garden

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• Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Kindness, Flower

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