Church Quote by Monty Don

gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

— Patience Strong

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

I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding.

— Monty Don

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a…

— Karel Capek

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

I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find…

— Julie Moir Messervy

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

— Larry Dossey

I think gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. True gardeners are both iconographers and theologians insofar as these activities are the fruit of…

— Vigen Guroian

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around…

— Jamaica Kincaid

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