Gardening Quote by Patience Strong Download Open image “gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.” — Patience Strong ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gardening Pastime Religion
Gardening is seen as a pastime that is almost like belonging to the Church of England - a sign of maturity and wisdom and… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. — William Howard Adams Copy Share Image
The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as they did in summer; they talk in a different leaf-language now. The wind moves through the boughs like fingers drawn across the strings of a harp filling the air with the harsh dry sound of sapless… — Patience Strong Copy Share
I welcome the autumnal chill in the air. There is a stimulation about it. Life moves to a different rhythm. There is a sense… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
Forget the times of trouble, but not the truths they taught. Forget the days of sorrow, but not the strength they brought. Forget the… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow. — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world. — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree. — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden. — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
in February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret. — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
Few would dispute with the rose her claim to be the queen of flowers, for where is her equal to be found? Is she… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
“As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious - So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams from the deep singing mind of the earth.” — Dale Pendell Copy Share
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything-a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing, tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood, landscape gardening. But somehow people… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing. — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin, sometimes even a dead tree -- the act of leaving parts of the garden untended, and calling attention to its margins, seems to undermine any pretense to perfect power or wisdom on the part of the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
I bet plants go like 'Weeeeeeeee!' whenever they're swallowed by a giraffe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every plant which my heavenly father has not planted with be uprooted — Jesus Christ Copy Share Image
There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“A flower needs the rain to grow just as much as it needs the sunshine.” — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
