Gardening Quotes - Page 24

• I think gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. True gardeners are both iconographers and theologians insofar as these activities are the fruit of prayer 'without ceasing.' Likewise, true gardeners never cease to garden, not even in their sleep, because gardening is not just something they do. It is how they live.

  Vigen Guroian

  Prayer, Sleep, Garden

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• Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Garden, Years, Generations

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Summer, Gun, Black

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• I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. I use the garden soil like it's a piece of cloth, and the plants and the trees, that's my embellishment for that cloth. You'd be surprised what the soil can do if you let it be your canvas.

  Ron Finley

  Inspiring, Art, Garden

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• The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Summer, Home, Successful

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• To garden is a solitary act.

  Michelle Cliff

  Garden, Solitary

  Michelle Cliff (1980). “Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise”

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• If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any perceptible motive, any hope of personal gain, has quietly killed your strawberry blossoms, tomatoes, lima and green beans, corn, squash, cucumbers. A brilliant sun is now smiling at this disaster with an insenstive cheerfulness as out of place as a funny story would be if someone you loved had just died.

  Ruth Stout

  Morning, Garden, June

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

  May Sarton

  Going Away, Age, Doe

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Beautiful, People, Needs

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• gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

  Patience Strong

  Pastime

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

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• much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.

  Patience Strong

  Struggle

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

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• If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.

  Patience Strong

  Heart, Knives, Rose

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

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• People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own to having been in prison, or got drunk at Buckingham Palace.

  E. M. Delafield

  Knowing, People, Drunk

  E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.4805, Delphi Classics

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• Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they have so many eyes.

  Opal Whiteley

  Eye, Thinking, Interesting

  Opal Whiteley (2010). “Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart”, p.31, Crown

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• Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Perfect, Peaceful, Feelings

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• Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around and walk around. Apparently people often see me standing there and they wave to me and I don't see them because I am reading the landscape.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Philosophy, Book, Reading

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• You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

  Rumer Godden

  Liars, Garden, House

  Rumer Godden (1984). “China Court”

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• To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

  Glenda Jackson

  Humility, Motherhood, Successful

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• Most of the nations that have serious gardening cultures have, or had, empires. You can't have this luxury of pleasure without somebody paying for it. This is nice to know. It's nice to know that when you sit down to enjoy a plate of strawberries, somebody got paid very little so that you could have your strawberries. It doesn't mean the strawberries will taste different, but it's nice to enjoy things less than we do. We enjoy things far too much, and it leads to incredible pain and suffering.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Pain, Nice, Mean

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• Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

  Julia Child

  Drawing, People, Justice

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• Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

  Timothy Leary

  Time, Soul, Spirituality

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• Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

  Theodore Roethke

  Moving, Religion, Spirit

  Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.179, Copper Canyon Press

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• Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Soul, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.32, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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