Quotes on Garden

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Gardening is not a rational act.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. _x000D_ The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, _x000D_ but sevenfold; _x000D_ they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do - to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind.