- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gardening Quotes
Lessons that grow slower than we'd like.
These lines treat the garden as a teacher of restraint - asking how much tending is actually enough, and noting that too much outside help can loosen a person's own claim on the work. Related ideas continue in our Garden collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Really
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really into gardening.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really cherish my time at home. As you know, I love my husband so much, but he's always doing everything for me out here to keep me rolling forward. But I don't get to do near enough for him. So when I'm at home, I like to cook for him and do some gardening - all that wife-y kinda stuff, you know?
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020