I have always felt that the best gardens aspired to coppice and that the best woods have all the elements of the very best gardens.
Monty DonRead
When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Planting is a hopeful act that brings beauty to a chaotic world.
This quote emphasizes the act of planting as a metaphor for investing in positive outcomes and beauty in an often stressful and chaotic world. It suggests that even amidst difficulties, creating and nurturing can lead to hopeful and beautiful futures.
Themes
PlantingFutureHopeBeautyChaos
In practice
Example use cases
During a community meeting on sustainability, someone shared this quote to inspire collective gardening efforts.
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Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a room with an almost painful olfactory inarticulateness. But most sweet peas smell of nothing. This does not stop them being beautiful, but they are like food with no flavour.
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Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.
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I use the period between Christmas and New Year to potter about, think and completely change my mindset. In that easy no-man's-land between Boxing Day and New Year, loins are girded and mettle readied. It is time, as we voyagers bid farewell to the old year, to fare forward.
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I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden is always the story of a person.
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