Gardening Quotes

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

Amanda Donohoe

LoveGardeningPeopleThinkHands

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

Simon Baker

GoodTimeGardeningDoingPretty

I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough.

Russell Smith

GardeningKiteCrazyTearsFriends

As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.

Michael Pollan

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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Dogen

LoveFlowerGardeningWeedEven

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

Doris Day

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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

WaterGardeningWaitSeedPlantYou

Garden as though you will live forever.

William Kent

LiveGardeningYouGardenWill

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

Sean Bean

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To dwell is to garden.

Martin Heidegger

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There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

Ken Kesey

GardeningEnergyYouNewGround

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

Hillary Clinton

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I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

Eve Best

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I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.

Dries van Noten

CookingGardeningThinkLivingWay

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

NatureHeartSoulGardeningSun

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

Nicholas Culpeper

GardeningFlowersHerbsGreatest

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

Jacqueline Bisset

LoveTimeGardeningPlantDoing

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

GodGardeningGardenHumanFirst

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

W. H. Davies

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I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.

Parker Posey

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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

FlowerChildrenGardeningCareKind

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

A. A. Milne

GardeningFlowersYouKnowWeeds

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.

Andrew Weil

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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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