Gardening Quotes
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Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.
Okakura Kakuzo -
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.
Vita Sackville-West
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I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!
Barbara Damrosch -
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.
Sean Bean -
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.
Evelyn Underhill -
Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.
Allen Lacy
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But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.
Vita Sackville-West -
Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.
Barbara Damrosch -
I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.
Scott Cohen -
Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.
Deborah Needleman -
Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.
George P. Bush -
People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.
Anna Bartlett Warner
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Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.
Claude Monet -
Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.
William Howard Adams -
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet -
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 -
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are considered more expert, if a little pedantic.
Diane Ackerman -
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
Claude Monet -
Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.
William Cowper -
In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.
Allen Lacy -
Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson