#gardening

All gardening is landscape painting. ↗

— William Kent

#landscape #painting

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#beautiful #gardens #how #made #oh

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#best #dig #find #garden #god

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

#being #closest #come #creation #hooks

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#flowers #garden #gardening #mother #sacrifices

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ↗

— Les Brown

#ago #because #long #long time #planted

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#attention #children #had #jungle #living

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. ↗

— D. Elton Trueblood

#discovering #full #human #human life #knows

Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY. ↗

— Felder Rushing

#gardening #gossip #gossip

Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#gardening #art