spending a lot of time in the garden...gardening tames the internal tempests of life

Date:   4/29/2009 9:48:15 AM ( 15 y ago)

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 Ale


Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. ~Lou Erickson


What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. ~Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, 1871


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


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, 1932


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. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them. ~Victoria Glendinning


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


When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too. ~Linda Solegato


Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots. ~Author Unknown


Take thy plastic spade,
It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,
They are thy colours.
~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782


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 1993


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.com


I know that if odour were visible, as colour is,
I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
~Robert Bridges, "Testament of Beauty"


Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ~Orson Scott Card


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


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, 1909


Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. ~Astrid Alauda


The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb

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