279 Quotes About Gardening

You're in the garden, you're where John is, in the dirt, abstracted, holding his green trowel.This is how he gardens: fifteen minutes of intense effort, fifteen minutes of ecstatic contemplation.

A lot of people think that to make a garden, all you have to do is put a few seeds in the ground. These are the same people who think that conceiving a baby makes you a good parent.

When you grow your own garden, it grows you.

One of my favorite dialogue pieces from Black Creek Burning: “It was a polite, white lie,” Brie whispered. “I’ll have to remember you think that way,” Nathan said.

Black Creek Burning: “It was a polite, white lie,” Brie whispered. “I’ll have to remember you think that way,” Nathan said.

If plants grow well, so will people.

When we use the toil of our hands and not only our minds to bring newness and restoration to the world, we become part of God's healing process in creation.

By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.

Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.