Gardening Quotes - Page 19

• In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to do my work in a nobler way; To sing my songs, and to say my say; To Dream my dreams, and to love my love; To hold my faith, and to live my life. Making the most of its shadowy day.

  Violet Fane

  Life, Faith, Dream

  Violet Fane, “In Green Old Gardens”

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• How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.

  William Rothenstein

  Beauty, Art, Garden

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• I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Work, Garden, Essentials

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.159, eBookIt.com

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• He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Garden, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.154, Graphic Arts Books

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• I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

  Elton John

  Beautiful, Weed, Hate

  "Elton John Interview GNOMEO AND JULIET". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2011.

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• In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.

  William Bernard Ziff, Jr.

  Golf, Fishing, Healthy

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• My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be a devotional practice, it may be song or poetry, it may be by gardening, it may be as an activist, scientist, or community leader. The path to restoration extends from our heart to the heart of sentient beings, and that path will be different for every person.

  Paul Hawken

  Song, Heart, Practice

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• What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.

  Shel Silverstein

  Funny, Feelings, Beets

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• It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their own hand at gardening and enjoy all the gifts of health, discovery, and connection a garden can bring.

  Michelle Obama

  School, Garden, Discovery

  "Excerpt: 'American Grown' by First Lady Michelle Obama", abcnews.go.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Religion, Done, Half

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• The source of nature is spirit.

  Larry Gates

  Nature, Religion, Spirit

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• Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

  Hilarie Burton

  Nails, Gloves, Dirt

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hilarie Burton", www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

  Deepak Chopra

  Religion, Identity, Spirit

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• I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream, it would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.

  Helen Mirren

  Dream, Thinking, Lovely

  "Oscar-winning Dame Helen Mirren Stirs The Tempest & Makes Us See Red This Season". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.

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• If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.

  Frederick Law Olmsted

  Beauty, Exercise, Giving

  Frederick Law Olmsted (1993). “Yosemite and the Mariposa grove: a preliminary report, 1865”, Yosemite Assn

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• Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question of superior or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at the moment. Getting there (as they say) is not important; the wandering about in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the bayous is the whole point.

  Henry Mitchell

  Journey, Hiking, Long

  Henry Mitchell (2014). “Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

  Earl Nightingale

  Success, Sports, Golf

  "How to Change Your Life in 30 Seconds".

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• Work without contemplation is never enough.

  Douglas V. Steere

  Work, Garden, Religion

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• If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Garden, Religion, Want

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• Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface

  Toby Hemenway

  Animal, Earth, May

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• Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

  Sara Maitland

  Creativity, Garden, Silence

  "Beyond peace and quiet" by Sara Maitland, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

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• Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Beautiful, Flower, Garden

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• Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Vision, Important, Needs

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• I am the dust in the sunlight,
  I am the ball of the sun . . .
  I am the mist of morning,
  the breath of evening . . . .
  I am the spark in the stone,
  the gleam of gold in the metal . . . .
  The rose and the nightingale
  drunk with its fragrance.
  I am the chain of being,
  the circle of the spheres,
  The scale of creation,
  the rise and the fall.
  I am what is and is not . . .
  I am the soul in all.

  Rumi

  Morning, Fall, Dust

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• Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.

  Susan Hill

  Children, Believe, Optimistic

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