Gardening Quotes - Page 23

• I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I - well, I wouldn't say prayed over, but pleaded with, cajoled. A rhododendron that hadn't bloomed for six years was flatly told it would be removed the following year if there were no flowers. Need I say that it has bloomed profusely ever since?

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Flower, Years, Would Be

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• I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.

  Patience Strong

  Heart, Adventure, Garden

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Home, Relax

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

  Mary Stewart

  Art, Garden, Plant

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• Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

  David Attenborough

  Television, Chef, Makeovers

  "David Attenborough criticises BBC schedule". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2008.

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• I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.

  Arthur Ransome

  Flower, Golf, Men

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• Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.

  Henry Mitchell

  Mistake, Pleasant

  Henry Mitchell (1999). “One Man's Garden”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not?

  Eva Mendes

  Love Is, Islands, Hot

  "Who are the sexiest women on the planet?". www.mirror.co.uk. February 14, 2010.

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• This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Art, Spring, Writing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.276, Ballantine Books

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• The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

  Mary McCarthy

  Facts, Sometimes, Love Making

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• Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!

  Philippe Kahn

  Play, Trying, World

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• Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.

  Kim Wilde

  Horse, Overwhelmed, Enjoy

  The Daily Telegraph, December 31, 1999.

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• No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.

  Alfred Austin

  Garden, Self Made, Made It

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

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• I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Creative, Soul

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Wall, Eye

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• Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all.

  Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

  Art, Thinking, People

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• it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Color, Green, Backgrounds

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• Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Would Be, Gardener, Stills

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• For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum of horticultural wisdom and practical advice, Our Life in Gardens is at once literate, learned, sensible, and, often, sheer luscious poetry. There are delights to be sampled on every page. From a cultivated life, they have brought forth, once again, a cultivated book.

  Philip Gambone

  Book, Garden, Years

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• There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

  Emily Oster

  Birth Defects, Risk, Increase

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• Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Garden, Weather, Climate

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• Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Reading, Amusement, Next

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.376

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• When you plant early, you bring spring early.

  Jean Hersey

  Spring, Plant

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future.

  Jean Hersey

  Believe, Years, Promise

  Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”

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• When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

  Peter Lynch

  Baseball, Golf, Hockey

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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