Gardening Quotes - Page 21

• Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self cannot be known.

  John P. Conger

  Wisdom, Garden, Self

  John P. Conger (2005). “Jung & Reich: The Body as Shadow”, p.183, North Atlantic Books

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• The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

  Marston Bates

  Photography, Nature, Science

  Marston Bates (2014). “The Nature of Natural History”, p.265, Princeton University Press

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• God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

  Angelus Silesius

  Religion, Spirit, Concealed

  Angelus Silesius, “God is a pure no-thing”

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• Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

  Charles Bowden

  Blue, Bird, Cooking

  "The Bone Garden of Desire" by Charles Bowden, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.

  Muso Soseki

  Heart, Garden, Religion

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• Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires a certain goodness on the part of the gardener: care, humility, patience, and respect, for example.

  David E. Cooper

  Humility, Practice, Care

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My advice for someone who wants to be creative but has a chronic illness is to think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that. It's just like gardening: What can grow in this soil? There's some soil you can grow roses in and some soil you can only grow cactuses in, so if you can only grow cactuses, become the best cactus grower in the whole world. Taking care of yourself is the most important thing. Find something that makes you happy. Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Running, Fun, Night

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm interested in acting as much as I'm interested in gardening. I want to garden, eventually. I want to learn how to do a lot of things. I've always wanted to learn how to paint, too. I'd like to try everything, but music is my reason for living.

  Bradford Cox

  Garden, Trying, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Computers, singing, reading, painting and gardening are my hobbies.

  Arfa Karim

  Reading, Singing, Hobbies

  Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com

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• The beauty of moving naturally, i.e. walking and gardening, is they're low impact. You're less likely to fall down and break a hip. Setting up your life so you're nudged into general physical activity every day is a strategy for your entire life from age 10 to 100.

  Dan Buettner

  Moving, Fall, Age

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

  Robert Muller

  Happiness, Book, Joy

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• I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Book, Teaching

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.

  Jim Nollman

  Love, Rocks, Desire

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• A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life. The reflections of the moon on one thousand rivers are from the same moon: the mind must be full of light.

  Zicheng Hong

  Life, Moon, Reflection

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• Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

  Allen Lacy

  Divides

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• I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.

  Allen Lacy

  Mean, Common, New Friends

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• Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.

  Allen Lacy

  Attention, Phenomenon

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• ...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart of the southern Utah wilderness-then we can hear the voice of our conscience. If we listen to that voice, it asks us to be conscious. And if we become conscious we choose to live lives of consequence.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Dog, Live Life, Heart

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• Gardening is all about optimism.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Optimism

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.56, Conari Press

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• I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.

  Udo Kier

  Stars, Sky, Cooking

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• Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

  Claude Monet

  Painting

  Claude Monet (2007). “Monet: a visit to Giverny”

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• Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.

  Andrew Weil

  Attitude, Believe, Garden

  "One Simple Resolution: Gardening" by Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

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• There is no gardening without humility

  Alfred Austin

  Humility

  Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

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• Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Children, Things In Life, Having Children

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• The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.

  A. A. Gill

  Cheating, Sex, Children

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