279 Quotes About Gardening

Emma fussed with the cinnamon-rose starts she had planted all over the backyard. She was as tender with the roses as if they were her children, and every hour or two she watered them.

Quite honestly, most of us don’t live in a world with perfect loam.

...Want to knowwhy my roses grow dead ona living vine? Prayer against civil war. Letus hate with a single heart. Don'tdrink the runoff. I always wanted a ruinso I bought a run-'er-down. Lovecontaminates

We seem to have lost the gift of patience, of waiting for time to unfold its story.

But gardening is none of that, really. Strip away the gadgets and the techniques, the books and the magazines and the soil test kits, and what you're left with, at the end of the day, is this: a stretch of freshly turned dirt, a handful of seeds scratched into the surface, and a marker to remember where they went. It is at the same time an incredibly brave and an incredibly simple thing to do, entrusting your seeds to the earth and waiting for them to rise up out of the ground to meet you.

Plants would rather be defecated on than be loved.

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

Prune my ambition to the lowly prayerThat I may drive the furrow of my taleStraight, through the lives and dignities I know.

The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife.