Acceptance Quote by Gilles Clement

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and…

— John Evelyn

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

— Patience Strong

Nature abhors a garden.

— Michael Pollan

As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is struck. Control,…

— Jim Nollman

Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak…

— Lindley Karstens

“Although harmony with nature is of considerable importance in planning a garden, it must never be allowed to obscure what lies at the heart…

— Tash Aw

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

— Anonymous

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

— Diane Dreher

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes...

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul.…

— William Lawson

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

— Monty Don

There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of…

— Christopher McDowell