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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. -- May Sarton
Gardening is not a rational act. -- Margaret Atwood
Gardening is an instrument of grace. -- May Sarton
Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration. -- Louise Erickson
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. -- Walt Disney
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. -- Lewis Gannett
Gardening is a humbling experience. -- Martha Stewart
Gardening is all about optimism. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gardening is the instrument of grace. -- May Sarton
Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us. -- Allen Lacy
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. -- Francis Bacon
Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job. -- George Bernard Shaw
A weed is but an unloved flower. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Gardening is the best therapy in the world. -- C. Z. Guest
Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention. -- Allen Lacy
Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. -- William Cowper
Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy. -- George P. Bush
Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child. -- Barbara Damrosch
Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight. -- Deborah Needleman
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. -- Alfred Austin
Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. -- Hilarie Burton
Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life -- Alan Titchmarsh
Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe. -- Thomas Berry
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. -- May Sarton
Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. -- William Howard Adams
Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. -- Helen Mirren
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors. -- Oscar de la Renta
Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive. -- Henry Mitchell
Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity. -- Gilles Clement
Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. -- Clive Anderson
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense. -- Phyllis McGinley
[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable. -- Jan Struther
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. -- Henry David Thoreau
Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC. -- Michelle Obama
Gardening symbolizes our race's primordial acceptance of a responsibility and role in rectifying the harm done to the creation through sin. -- Vigen Guroian
Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity. -- Sara Maitland
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. -- Claude Monet
Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. -- Allan Armitage
Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't. -- Kim Wilde
Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow. -- Diane Dreher
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity. -- John Evelyn
Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be highly satisfying. -- David Wheeler
I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it! -- Ken Thompson
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. -- Jim Nollman
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
Gardening is all about optimism. I put a seed in the ground. I consistently tend it, confident I will see the results, in time, of the nurture I have provided. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant. -- Margaret Atwood
Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness -- Barbara Cheney
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion. -- Eudora Welty
From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner. -- Joel Salatin
Gardening is like landscape painting to me. The garden is the canvas. Plants, containers and other garden features are the colors. I paint on the garden of canvas hoping to create a master piece with my colors. -- Ama H.Vanniarachchy
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed -- Lewis Gannit
Gardening is about communication, relationships, routines and life-enrichment. Gardens are places that connect us to the seasons and the life cycle. They're a vehicle for talking about esoteric and - as far as TV goes - alien topics such as beauty and fulfilment. -- Costa Georgiadis
Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing. -- Shirley Hibberd
Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill. -- Jane Kaczmarek
That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts. -- Paul Fleischman
Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people. -- Audrey Hepburn
Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden. -- Joshua Reynolds
I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. I use the garden soil like it's a piece of cloth, and the plants and the trees, that's my embellishment for that cloth. You'd be surprised what the soil can do if you let it be your canvas. -- Ron Finley
The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life. -- Vita Sackville-West
The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard. -- Joel Salatin
Flowers are happy things. -- P. G. Wodehouse
To dwell is to garden. -- Martin Heidegger
All gardening is landscape painting. -- William Kent
gardening is a madness and a rapture. -- Faith Sullivan
He plants trees to benefit another generation. -- Caecilius Statius
I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. -- Martha Smith
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. -- William Wordsworth
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. -- Sigmund Freud
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. -- Gertrude Jekyll
The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. -- Lillie Langtry
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. -- Thomas Jefferson
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. -- Alexander Smith
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. -- Charles Dudley Warner
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. -- Rudyard Kipling
The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. -- Larry Dossey
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. -- George Eliot
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. -- Luther Burbank
Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. -- Doris Day
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia. -- Barbra Streisand
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. -- Dogen
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. -- Doug Larson
I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with. -- Suzy Bogguss
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. -- Phyllis Theroux
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. -- Thomas Jefferson
It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. -- W. C. Sellar
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. -- Georges Bernanos
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. -- Gertrude Jekyll
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? -- Douglas Adams
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. -- Alfred Austin
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour. -- William Blake
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. -- Penelope Keith
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? -- Francis Cabot Lowell
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it. -- Bootsy Collins
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. -- Alfred Austin
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. -- Voltaire
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. -- Michael Pollan
Live at home -- George Washington Carver
Gardeners are the ultimate mixologists. -- Amy Stewart
A garden always has a point. -- Elizabeth Hoyt
Shun artificial rocks like the plague. -- Henry Sherman Adams
The market is the best garden. -- George Herbert
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece -- Claude Monet
When tended the right way, beauty multiplies. -- Shannon Wiersbitzky
No one plants rosebushes for the thorns. -- Marty Rubin
Everything is an art, which must be mastered. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Garden design is all about concealment and surprise. -- Andrew Crofts
Do not spread the compost on the weeds. -- William Shakespeare
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope. -- Rebecca Solnit
Books are like plants. They're decorations that are alive. -- Katy Lee
As my daddy said, soil is the basis of everything. -- Michael Lee West
Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain. -- J. Aleksandr Wootton
I am the Angel of Death to any kind of plant. -- Sara Sheridan
As far as Frances was concerned, gardening was simply open-air housework. -- Sarah Waters
By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors. -- S. Kelley Harrell
Half the interest of the garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. -- Mrs. C.W. Earle

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