Garden Quotes & Sayings (Gardeners, Farming, Gardening, Dirt, Soil, Farms, etc)Welcome to my page of gardening quotations, which has evolved over the years to include more and more quotes supporting the "grow food, not lawns" philosophy, as well as farming and the importance of soil and dirt. Thanks to Google Books, I've been able to spend many delightful hours harvesting excerpts from long- forgotten old books, back when gardening and farming were a part of daily life for many people, much more than they are now to us city folk. The amazing wisdom and language from centuries past makes my soul bloom into smiles, so I hope you too enjoy these quotes ranging from the time- honored to the freshly new. And special thanks to Michael P.
Garofalo of gardendigest. March 2. 01. 4Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps; Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps.~A. Bronson Alcott, "The Garden," Tablets, 1.
I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re- examine your life. Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes. My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. H. Fred Dale(Thanks, Anne)Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson. Observation. Nevertheless, what a man needs in gardening is a cast- iron back, with a hinge in it.
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Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, "What I Know about Gardening: Third Week," 1. Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. Author Unknown. There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.
Mirabel Osler. Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. Author Unknown. In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. Robert Brault, rbrault. Science, or para- science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough.
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Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them. Victoria Glendinning. The best place to seek God is in a garden.
You can dig for him there. George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, 1. In gardens, beauty is a by- product. The main business is sex and death. Sam Llewelyn. The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. Hanna Rion. In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.
The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. Abram L. Urban. It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane. Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. Marcelene Cox. God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.
Author Unknown. I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from and Old Manse. Don't wear perfume in the garden — unless you want to be pollinated by bees. Anne Raver. Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots. Author Unknown. It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Gardens are a form of autobiography. Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1. Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. Lindley Karstens, noproblemgarden. I know that if odour were visible, as colour is,I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.~Robert Bridges, "Testament of Beauty"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi. Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. Orson Scott Card. In golden April weather,In sun and wind and rain,Let us fare forth and follow. Beneath the spring's first swallow. By budding break and heather.
To the good brown soil again!~Frederick Frye Rockwell, "Invitation," Around the Year in the Garden, 1. How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.
Benjamin Disraeli. Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made. By singing: —"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade..~Rudyard Kipling, "The Glory of the Garden"You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. Author Unknown. There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. Aldo Leopold. I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them.
I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife- beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. Reginald Farrer, In a Yorkshire Garden, 1. Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. Terri Guillemets.
The garden is the poor man's apothecary. German Proverb. Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark, swollen buds, strip- tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora.
Ketzel Levine's talkingplants. On every stem, on every leaf.. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. Mrs. C. W. Earle, Pot- Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1. Thanks, Jessica)No two gardens are the same.
No two days are the same in one garden. Hugh Johnson. His to rejoice with exceeding great joy who plucks the fruit of his planting, but his the divine anointing who watched and waited and toiled and prayed, — and failed, — and can yet be glad. Muriel Strode (1. Wind- Wafted Wild Flowers," in The Open Court, August 1. Watch Teenage Bank Heist Online Freeform more. Kevin &Amp; Perry Go Large Movie Watch Online. With rake and seeds and sower,And hoe and line and reel,When the meadows shrill with "peeping"And the old world wakes from sleeping,Who wouldn't be a grower.
That has any heart to feel?~Frederick Frye Rockwell, "Invitation," Around the Year in the Garden, 1. It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season. Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden.
We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are all forms of the soil. But that part of this mineral that is on top, like it is the skin of the earth, that is the most precious of the commons. Wangari Maathai (1. Dirt! The Movie, 2.
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. Abraham Lincoln. From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return." ~Robert Brault, rbrault. We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. Evelyn Underhill, Letters. Let nature be in your yard.
Greg Peterson, www. Said during Urban Farm tour, 2. March 2. 2nd, Phoenix, Arizona. The hum of bees is the voice of the garden. Elizabeth Lawrence. A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.