Quotes About Gardening

My garden will never make me famous. I'm a horticultural ignoramus. I can't tell a string-bean from a soybean, or even a girl bean from a boy bean

Parsley is gharsley.

Keep carrots away from soil that has recently had manure added into it, or they may grow "legs" and appear forked. Work used coffee grounds into the soil as fertilizer.

Playfulness is the cornerstone of emotional fulfilment, a key to insight and volition. It can be activated by any kind of everyday task from gardening to washing up. Although we need to earn a living, and although there are many practical tasks we have to perform, living as playfully as possible makes our existence infinitely more worthwhile.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

But sometimes, when the heat of the day is over, if I see flowers and grasses athirst, I am taken with pity for them. If no other be there to minister to them I will take a great watering-can in my own hands and give them water in their need. That is no gardening; it is a godlike charity, a sacramental act of mercy.

Of my gardener I would say that he moves meditatively in the garden. He labours continually but without cruel haste; if he make changes, it is as the seasons make them. Like every good gardener, there is something priestly in his manner.

Adams looks forward to teaching his granddaughters about planting trees, noting that they already show inclination toward this and need only be encouraged in the naturalist pursuits he has found so healthy.

That simple beauty was still bearable barely, and that if I lived moment to moment, garden to stove to the simple act of flying, I could have peace.

I stood back of the new garden watching the sun touch the mountains and ruddle the turned dirt and the threads of water and I can say there was something moving inside that resembled a kind of happiness. I would never have named it. Not then. For fear. But I name it now.