The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
Vita Sackville-WestRead
The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Gardeners embody optimism and a continual desire for improvement in their work.
This quote highlights the essential characteristics of gardeners, portraying them as individuals who possess an unyielding optimism and an entrepreneurial spirit. They are never content with the status quo; instead, they continually seek to enhance their skills and yield better results, demonstrating a perpetual drive for growth and excellence in their gardening practices.
Themes
GardenersOptimismImprovementGrowthNature
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could inspire a community gardening initiative, emphasizing the joy and optimism found in nurturing plants.
More from Vita Sackville-West
All quotes →I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.
Vita Sackville-WestRead
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.
Vita Sackville-WestRead
It is a sad moment when the first phlox appears. It is the amber light indicating the end of the great burst of early summer and suggesting that we must now start looking forward to autumn. Not that I have any objection to autumn as a season, full of its own beauty; but I just cannot bear to see another summer go, and I recoil from what the first hint of autumn means.
Vita Sackville-WestRead
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree
Vita Sackville-WestRead
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How _x000D_ else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?
Vita Sackville-WestRead
Similar quotes
Clearly, we need to rethink our attitudes about water and move away from thinking of it as nearly a free good and a God-given right.
Norman BorlaugRead
It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.
Frans LantingRead
Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.
RumiRead
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
David R. BrowerRead
A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.
John Millington SyngeRead
A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.
Thomas FriedmanRead