The destruction of all Shadowhunters' said Scott. 'I rather thought you knew that. It isn't a gardening club.

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not?

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.

If a person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

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.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

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?

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

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.

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.

I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

If I didn't believe that we had a chance of coming to power, then I would have focused on taking care of my three children or gardening.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.

My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.

I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.

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.

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.

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!

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

It is a good idea 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.

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

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?

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

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.

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