Quotes About Planting A Garden

#1. Re-programming your mind, body & spirit is like planting a garden, if the soil isn't right nothing will grow.

Nikki Rowe

#2. And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

Jane Campion

#3. As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life.

James Hunter

#4. I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration.

Piet Oudolf

#6. Every thought, word, and action plants seeds in the garden of your life. Are you planting seeds of love, compassion, peace, or those of anger, resentment and dissatisfaction? Choose wisely and tend your garden well.

John Bruna

#7. One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.

William Hazlitt

#8. Greatness is finding your natural talent, fueling it with passion, planting it in well-nourished soil, and toiling in the garden until it breaks through the earth and reaches for the stars.

Janet Autherine

#9. When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a full garden in bloom; you're like, 'Oh, I just want to smell the flowers and play among the flowers all day.' That's what I'm doing. I'm playing among the flowers.

Colman Domingo

#10. Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

Nora Roberts

#11. Planting is not the end; it is only the beginning of planting.

Henry Sherman Adams

#12. Desperately wanting to define what's in the air between us but unwilling to make the first move

Emily Giffin

#13. 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.

Bertrand Russell

#14. I'm planting my love in the garden of my hope.

Debasish Mridha

#15. I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

Steven Spielberg

#16. What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

Julia Cameron

#17. In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

Martin Luther

#18. Shun artificial rocks like the plague.

Henry Sherman Adams

#19. Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

Frank Auerbach

#20. He focused his mind on other things so his pecker would behave and not turn any harder than it already was. Things like pruning bushes, and weeding the vegetable garden, and planting his cock deep inside her. "No, No, not that, I mustna dwell on that.

Vonnie Davis

#21. Our devotional life with God is more like the planting of a garden. When we arise from sowing into the secret place, we will not usually be able to point to immediate results or benefits. What we sow today will require an entire season of growth before the results are manifest.

Bob Sorge

#22. Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.

James Cook

#23. Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

Adam Clarke

#24. We don't necessarily need to know each other's name, age, profession, drug of choice, childhood trauma or recent tragedy to understand what pain feels like and offer comfort. We are strangers drawn together by a shared desire for lasting peace.

Marta Mrotek

#25. In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.

Charles Dickens

#26. An exercise of moral imagination helps companies further goals of its members.

Ted Malloch

#27. As in arithmetic-there is only one right answer to a sum, and all other answers are wrong; but some answers are much nearer being right than others.

C.S. Lewis

#28. I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.

Michel De Montaigne

#29. Certainly, one of the greatest achievements of the human intellectual spirit was the Arabic Translation Movement. Over the course of about 100 years, virtually the entire Greek Scientific and philosophical corpus was either translated or summarized into Arabic (McGinnis, 10).

Jon McGinnis

#30. The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Vera Nazarian

#31. Let death take me planting my cabbages, indifferent to him, and still less of my garden not being finished. (tr. Charles Cotton)

Michel De Montaigne

#32. Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha.

Rajneesh

#33. Yet one priest remaining in this country has the same significance as a single candle burning in the catacombs.

Shusaku Endo

#34. We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously.

Grace Lee Boggs

#35. My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man.
"When the planting's done," I said.
"Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting."
"Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left.

Orson Scott Card

#36. All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end.

Thom Yorke

#37. I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Jamaica Kincaid

#38. As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated.

John Evelyn

#39. trust me you will never remember this day. When you grow up, you will probably never be friends with the people that are sitting next to you today.

Patrick Allen

#40. Certain plants, like certain friends, you enjoy having for a visit but do not care to see remain forever and a day.

Henry Sherman Adams