Claude Monet
Painter
"I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting."
Gardening quotes
Gardening
137 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Shel Silverstein
Poet, Songwriter, Author
"What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet."
Steven Wright
Comedian
"I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!"
Emily Dickinson
Poet
"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."
Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
"To dwell is to garden."
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"Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job."
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"To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost."
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".... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One."
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"I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser."
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"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening."
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"Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything."
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"Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal."
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"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."
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"What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal."
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"I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on."
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"Gardening is an instrument of grace."
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"Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact."
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"March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb."
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"When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature."
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"Use plants to bring life"
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"It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are."
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"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."
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"The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties."
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"The source of nature is spirit."
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"Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite."
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