Quotes About Gardening

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

Every flower can flourish with fertile soil and water.

We planted flowers last year and I didn't know if I'd be alive to see them come up.

He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it clean—privet, vines, and weeds; but he waited in his rooms through the winter instead, weeping and dreaming.

Take thy plastic spade, It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants, They are thy colours.

I send my friends e-mail messages about the progress of my garden, especially of my roses. It left them with the impression, I think, that I was concerned with nothing else. I felt no urgency in correcting that notion. People obsessed with their gardens have probably caused the least suffering in the world of any category of men.

People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.

... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

When I won the Derby on Never Say Die I went home and cut the lawn. I haven't cut the lawn since.

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk.

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

What do gardeners do when they retire?