Best Gardening Thoughts
312 Gardening quotes by 235 unique authors
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Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds…
— Henry Beard
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"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles,…
— Abraham Cowley
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I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow…
— E. Nesbit
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My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
— Gary Snyder
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Gardening is all about optimism. I put a seed in the ground. I consistently tend it, confident I will see the results, in time, of…
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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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.
— Carolyn Murphy
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I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.
— Simon Baker
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Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.
— Clive Anderson
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Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am…
— Marie Curie
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play…
— Lee Hall
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...the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of…
— Augustus William Hare
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of…
— John Roberts
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I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.
— Steve Zahn
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience…
— J. Carter Brown
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Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect…
— Thalassa Cruso
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I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are…
— Thalassa Cruso
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I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.
— Vigen Guroian
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You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
— Claude Monet
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To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.
— Guy Browning
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I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way…
— Andy Goldsworthy
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Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it…
— Simon Blackburn
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I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary,…
— Julie Moir Messervy
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A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy
— Luis Barragan
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235 authors contributed a total of 312 Gardening Quotes, led by these top contributors: