Gardening Quotes by Margaret Atwood

“Come, see real flowers of this painful world. —BASHŌ.”

— Margaret Atwood

Gardening is not a rational act.

— Margaret Atwood

“the red flowers, the shining”

— Margaret Atwood

“Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?”

— Margaret Atwood

“But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe”

— Margaret Atwood

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

— Margaret Atwood

“On the wall above the chair, a picture, framed but with no glass: a print of flowers,”

— Margaret Atwood

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

— Margaret Atwood

“What should I take? Something that will not be missed. In the wood at midnight, a magic flower.”

— Margaret Atwood

And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

— Margaret Atwood

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which…

— Margaret Atwood

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

— Margaret Atwood

“But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand…

— Margaret Atwood

“Yet each flower, each twig, each pebble, shines as though illuminated from within, as once before, on her first day in the…

— Margaret Atwood

“I don’t want to be left by myself in this room. The walls are too empty, there are no pictures on them…

— Margaret Atwood

“Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in…

— Margaret Atwood

“She walks towards Karen and Karen feels a cool wind against her skin, and the grandmother holds out both of her knobby…

— Margaret Atwood