Quotes About Gardening

But this first installation was by no means the last. Every year the Queen had some new fancy for beautifying her miniature kingdom with more highly artificial and more "natural" additions and alterations.

Green fingers was the country name for time, patience and love working together.

Constantine, eight years old, was working in his father's garden and thinking about his own garden, a square of powdered granite he had staked out and combed into rows at the top of his family's land.

She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance.

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.

I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.

Deep down I suspect that many gardeners regard themselves as minor-league alchemists, transforming the dross of compost (and water and sunlight) into substances of rare value and beauty and power.

Much of gardening is a return, an effort at recovering remembered landscapes.

The garden is an unhappy place for the perfectionist. Too much stands beyond our control here, and the only thing we can absolutely count on is eventual catastrophe.

The gardener learns nothing when his carrots thrive, unless that success is won against a background of prior disappointment. Outright success is dumb, disaster frequently eloquent.

Among the many, many things the green thumb knows is the consolation of the compost pile, where nature, ever obliging, redeems this season's deaths and disasters in the fresh promise of next spring.

We gardeners have always had trouble heeding Henry Ward Beecher's sound nineteenth-century advice, that we not be "made wild by pompous catalogs from florists and seedsmen.

Si yo fuese un dictador dispuesto a controlar la prensa nacional, Organic Gardening sería la primera publicación que acallaría, porque es la más subversiva. Creo que los horticultores orgánicos encabezan un esfuerzo serio por salvar el mundo, cambiando la disposición del hombre hacia él para alejarse del estado colectivo, centralista y superindustrial y alcanzar una relación más sencilla, real y de tú a tú con la propia tierra.

Michael Pollan

What existential difference is there between the human being's role in this (or any) garden and the bumblebee's

We divide the world into subjects and objects, and here in the garden, as in nature generally, we humans are the subjects.

When I'm outside gardening, it can be so inspiring. I think of words and melodies. It's peaceful. Every singer-songwriter should find something outside of music that makes them as happy as gardening makes me.

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

I absolutely adore beetroot in all shapes and sizes - I even grow them when possible.

Besides gardening, I love to sketch and to sing.

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 the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.