Quotes about Gardening

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A weed is but an unloved flower. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow — Shannon L. Alder
The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you mer — Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
You don’t have to do it all. If unrushing your life feels overwhelming or impossible, consider that it is impossible for — Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as l — Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need — Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
A garden is made of hope. — W.S. Merwin, What Is a Garden?
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it se — Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors. — S. Kelley Harrell, Nature's Gifts Anthology
Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature. — S. Kelley Harrell, Nature's Gifts Anthology
We’re all given gifts in life, it’s what we do with them that shows us what we’ve learned. — Lise-Lotte Loomer, Greenhouse Hygge: The House of My Growing Dreams
May I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends,And many books, both true. — Abraham Cowley
I tend the flowers of my mindWatering our memories as they bloom — Richard L. Ratliff
He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was o — J.M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K
...Want to knowwhy my roses grow dead ona living vine? Prayer against civil war. Letus hate with a single heart. Don'tdr — Robin Schiff
Modern life is, for most of us, a kind of serfdom to mortgage, job and the constant assault to consume. Although we have — Monty Don, My Roots: A Decade in the Garden
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece — Claude Monet
Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot. — Bill Richardson, Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast
The earth sometimes rewards humans who do good works for the planet. Look out for unexpected windfalls of produce from t — Sarah Rajkotwala, The Year of Talking to Plants: The Plants and Fairies Talk in Their Own Words
Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other f — Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education