Gardening Quotes
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Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.
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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.
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Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends. There's never a shortage of things to do, no limit to the lessons that can be learned, especially for children, and there's always plenty of credit to go around, even for the mistakes.
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Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life.
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Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.
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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.
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Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.
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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.
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The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.
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I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.
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Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.
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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
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One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
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People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.
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Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.
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Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.
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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.
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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.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.
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I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.
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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!
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Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.
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I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.
