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We all travelled light, taking with us only what we considered to be the bare essentials of life. When we opened our luggage for Customs inspection, the contents of our bags were a fair indication of character and interests. Thus Margo's luggage contained a multitude of diaphanous garments, three books on slimming, and a regiment of small bottles each containing some elixir guaranteed to cure acne. Leslie's case held a couple of roll-top pullovers and a pair of trousers which were wrapped round two revolvers, an air-pistol, a book called Be Your Own Gunsmith, and a large bottle of oil that leaked. Larry was accompanied by two trunks of books and a brief-case containing his clothes. Mother's luggage was sensibly divided between clothes and various volumes on cooking and gardening. I travelled with only those items that I thought necessary to relieve the tedium of a long journey: four books on natural history, a butterfly net, a dog, and a jam-jar full of caterpillars all in imminent danger of turning into chrysalids. Thus, by our standards fully equipped, we left the clammy shores of England. ~ Gerald Durrell
Gardening quotes by Gerald Durrell
The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. ~ Phyllis McGinley
Gardening quotes by Phyllis McGinley
What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world. ~ Helen Humphreys
Gardening quotes by Helen Humphreys
I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails. ~ Amanda Donohoe
Gardening quotes by Amanda Donohoe
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ~ Alice Walker
Gardening quotes by Alice Walker
You mustn't rely on your flowers to make your garden attractive. A good bone structure must come first, with an intelligent use of evergreen plants so that the garden is always clothed, no matter what time of year. Flowers are an added delight, but a good garden is the garden you enjoy looking at even in the depths of winter. ~ Margery Fish
Gardening quotes by Margery Fish
I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough. ~ Russell Smith
Gardening quotes by Russell Smith
No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff. ~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Gardening quotes by Mark Z. Danielewski
I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening. ~ Udo Kier
Gardening quotes by Udo Kier
To-day I think
Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield,
And bracken, and wild carrot's seed,
And the square mustard field;
Odours that rise
When the spade wounds the root of tree,
Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed,
Rhubarb or celery;
The smoke's smell, too,
Flowing from where a bonfire burns
The dead, the waste, the dangerous,
And all to sweetness turns.
It is enough
To smell, to crumble the dark earth,
While the robin sings over again
Sad songs of Autumn mirth.
- A poem called DIGGING. ~ Edward Thomas
Gardening quotes by Edward Thomas
As soon as he stood in front of her, she folded her arms and looked cross.
"You don't have any gardening skills. You turned down a prestigious job to weed the garden?
"I will be rewarded richly in treasures untold."
She raised a brow.
"I've heard dragon-shifters pay a lot of money to merchants and the like.
"Aaagh, but you are also a dragon-shifter of a sort.
Yes, but I am a gardener, which means I don't go on high-risk missions to earn my gold. ~ Terry Spear
Gardening quotes by Terry Spear
Remember something you were good at as a kid and bring it back as a hobby now that you're an adult. I gave gardening a go and also crying whenever I drop something on the floor and can't find it. Crying always makes it appear againg, oddly. ~ Sarah Millican
Gardening quotes by Sarah Millican
A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening. ~ Kage Baker
Gardening quotes by Kage Baker
There is no elegance or character of any sort in [the forsythia's] structure. Its crude expose of colour is undiluted by foliage. And in its most popular cultivars the flowers are packed into such congested lumps that it is like being asked to swallow a helping of cornflour pudding. ~ Christopher Lloyd
Gardening quotes by Christopher Lloyd
What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet. ~ Shel Silverstein
Gardening quotes by Shel Silverstein
Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people. ~ Audrey Hepburn
Gardening quotes by Audrey Hepburn
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. ~ D.H. Lawrence
Gardening quotes by D.H. Lawrence
Shun artificial rocks like the plague. ~ Henry Sherman Adams
Gardening quotes by Henry Sherman Adams
Man is a plant, and its gardener. But it is only his soil that lets him rise, and it is only gardening himself, that may allow him to bear fruit. ~ Lars Frodesen
Gardening quotes by Lars Frodesen
Most folks probably think that gardens only get tended when they're blooming. But most folks would be wrong. ~ Shannon Wiersbitzky
Gardening quotes by Shannon Wiersbitzky
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. ~ Charles Dudley Warner
Gardening quotes by Charles Dudley Warner
April is the kindest month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden. ~ Marty Rubin
Gardening quotes by Marty Rubin
From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. ~ Thomas Moore
Gardening quotes by Thomas Moore
As far as Frances was concerned, gardening was simply open-air housework. ~ Sarah Waters
Gardening quotes by Sarah Waters
A lot of people feel that way. That if you didn't pay your dues by being ostracized then you're not *really* a geek.
I don't think that though. It's not an exclusive club that you need to pay some social price to get in. Being a geek is about loving something passionately beyond all reason or sense. And it need not necessarily be related to science fiction, fantas, superheroes, etcetera. You can be a gardening geek, a model train geek, stamp collecting geek, a baby geek ...
It's about enthusiasm, in my opinion.
From his blog RE: Thirty years of D&D ~ Patrick Rothfuss
Gardening quotes by Patrick Rothfuss
Here march the eaters of earth,
the swallowers of rain. ~ J. Aleksandr Wootton
Gardening quotes by J. Aleksandr Wootton
Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake. ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Gardening quotes by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants. ~ Dorothy Parker
Gardening quotes by Dorothy Parker
I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled. ~ Jackie French
Gardening quotes by Jackie French
A garden is a friend you can visit any time. ~ Okakura Kakuzo
Gardening quotes by Okakura Kakuzo
Why do we make gardens? The act seems so extravagant, so illogical. Don't we have enough hard work in our lives already? Are we looking for more? Why on earth do we bother?
It takes a kind of courage. You have to learn to cherish. You have to dare, to take the risk, to bother, to care. To make a garden, you have to be able to love and to see yourself as capable of nurturing.
It takes patience, too. If the garden is to thrive you must commit yourself to it for years, for the creation of a garden takes place over time. Like a child, a garden has needs that have to be met, whether we feel like it or not, day after day.
You have to have confidence. You have to take charge and be responsible. You have to act upon the garden.
And you have to let it act upon you. Because it will act upon you. And will knit you together with the rest of the world. It will not let you stand apart.
The challenge is hard, but it is irresistible. To get dirty, to get involved. To act and be acted upon. That is life. If we stop accepting that challenge, we stop living. ~ Simone Martel
Gardening quotes by Simone Martel
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Gardening quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening - everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, I did that. ~ Ricky Gervais
Gardening quotes by Ricky Gervais
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Gardening quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. ~ Luther Burbank
Gardening quotes by Luther Burbank
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience. ~ J. Carter Brown
Gardening quotes by J. Carter Brown
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. ~ Andrew Weil
Gardening quotes by Andrew Weil
Only some things are worth doing well. Most things that are worth doing are only worth doing sloppily. Many things aren't worth doing at all. Anything not worth doing at all is certainly not worth doing well. ~ Carol Deppe
Gardening quotes by Carol Deppe
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. ~ Alexander Smith
Gardening quotes by Alexander Smith
At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous. ~ Mirabel Osler
Gardening quotes by Mirabel Osler
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. ~ May Sarton
Gardening quotes by May Sarton
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~ Lee Hall
Gardening quotes by Lee Hall
Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers. ~ May Sarton
Gardening quotes by May Sarton
A farmer who neglects to sow ordinary seeds only loses the crop, whereas anyone who forgets to sow seeds of a crop that has already been harvested twelve months before risks disturbing the entire fabric of causality, not to mention acute embarrassment. ~ Terry Pratchett
Gardening quotes by Terry Pratchett
For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science. ~ Ken Thompson
Gardening quotes by Ken Thompson
I could go on and on. But that is just what gardening is, going on and on. My philistine of a husband often told with amusement how a cousin when asked when he expected to finish his garden replied 'Never, I hope'. And that, I think, applies to all true gardeners. ~ Margery Fish
Gardening quotes by Margery Fish
Remember to be conscious of what seeds you plant, as the garden of your mind is like the world. The longer seeds grow, the more likely they are to become trees. Trees often block the sun's rays from reaching other seeds, allowing only plants that are acclimated to the shadow of the tree to grow - keeping you stuck with that one reality. ~ Natasha Potter
Gardening quotes by Natasha Potter
The sovereign individual cannot escape to any degree the rules and practices of gardening. ~ Tom P. S. Angier
Gardening quotes by Tom P. S. Angier
My garden will never make me famous. I'm a horticultural ignoramus. I can't tell a string-bean from a soybean, or even a girl bean from a boy bean ~ Ogden Nash
Gardening quotes by Ogden Nash
Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck - without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming. ~ Joel Achenbach
Gardening quotes by Joel Achenbach
May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true. ~ Abraham Cowley
Gardening quotes by Abraham Cowley
Some of the gardeners, Nanao said, worked according to the precepts of Muso Soseki, others according to other Japanese Zen masters; others still to Fu Hsi, the legendary inventor of the Chinese system of geomancy called feng shui; others to Persian gardening gurus, including Omar Khayyam; or to Leopold or Jackson, or other early American ecologists, like the nearly forgotten biologist Oskar Schnelling; and so on. These ~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Gardening quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson
She soon called a halt to the work. Judy's great success was that she stopped her helpers before they got tired. ~ Maeve Binchy
Gardening quotes by Maeve Binchy
In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as "escapist" literature. As I understand it, the adjective implies, a little condescendingly, that the life therein depicted cannot be identified with the real life which the critic knows so well in W.C.1: and may even have the disastrous effect on the reader of taking him happily for a few hours out of his own real life in N.W.8. Why this should be a matter for regret I do not know; nor why realism in a novel is so much admired when realism in a picture is condemned as mere photography; nor, I might add, why drink and fornication should seem to bring the realist closer to real life than, say, golf and gardening. ~ A.A. Milne
Gardening quotes by A.A. Milne
It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role. ~ Robert Irwin
Gardening quotes by Robert Irwin
It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part of gardening is walking around in a daze, idly deadheading the odd dahlia, wondering where on earth to squeeze in yet another impulse buy, debating whether to move the recalcitrant artemisia one more time, or daydreaming about where to put the pergola. ~ Jane Garmey
Gardening quotes by Jane Garmey
I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding. ~ John Hurt
Gardening quotes by John Hurt
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. ~ Peter Zumthor
Gardening quotes by Peter Zumthor
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. ~ Michael Pollan
Gardening quotes by Michael Pollan
Mandy tidied the weeds and pulled out some of the summer flowers. It saddened her to do so. She was parting with beloved friends. ~ Julie Andrews Edwards
Gardening quotes by Julie Andrews Edwards
Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child. ~ Barbara Damrosch
Gardening quotes by Barbara Damrosch
I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening ... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way. ~ Lauren Bowles
Gardening quotes by Lauren Bowles
But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ... ~ Vita Sackville-West
Gardening quotes by Vita Sackville-West
There is all the pleasure that one can have in golddigging in finding one's hopes satisfied in the riches of a good hill of potatoes. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Gardening quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett
So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gardening quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening. ~ Lykke Li
Gardening quotes by Lykke Li
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. ~ Robert Bridges
Gardening quotes by Robert Bridges
When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gardening quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gardening is, by its very nature, an expression of the triumph of optimism over experience. No matter how bad this year was, there's always next year. Experience doesn't count. ~ William Alexander
Gardening quotes by William Alexander
Spring has always been the dearest friend to me, with her voice like a feather tossed on the wind. With a tin pail of water in hand, I set out into the gardens grown in her warmth. A straw hat shields my cheek from the rosy stain of her sunlit kiss. When the work of the day is done, I find my little shelter in her embrace. ~ Erin Forbes
Gardening quotes by Erin Forbes
A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends ... ~ Tim Smit
Gardening quotes by Tim Smit
To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment. ~ Eleanor Perenyi
Gardening quotes by Eleanor Perenyi
The administration often used the analogy of planting the "seeds of democracy" in the Middle East, as if they'd sprout into democratic regimes as nature took its course. Democracy doesn't sprout like apple trees. Scattering the seeds isn't enough, no matter how many soldiers do it. To continue with the gardening analogy the Bush administration seemed to love (there were also many "seeds of terror" and "seeds of hope"), democracy is more like a fragile flower that requires constant attention and the right soil. Dictatorships and fascist regimes are hardy weeds that sprout on their own. ~ Richard Engel
Gardening quotes by Richard Engel
The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt. ~ Texas Bix Bender
Gardening quotes by Texas Bix Bender
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight. ~ Gertrude Jekyll
Gardening quotes by Gertrude Jekyll
She was a gardener of the ruthless type, and went for any small green thing that incautiously showed a timid spike above the earth, suspecting it of being a weed. She had had a slight difference with the professional gardener who had hitherto worked for her on three afternoons during the week, and had told him that his services were no longer required. She meant to do her gardening herself this year, and was confident that a profusion of beautiful flowers and a plethora of delicious vegetables would be the result. At the end of her garden path was a barrow of rich manure, which she proposed, when she had finished the slaughter of the innocents, to dig into the depopulated beds. On the other side of her paling her neighbour Georgie Pillson was rolling his strip of lawn, on which during the summer he often played croquet on a small scale. Occasionally they shouted remarks to each other, but as they got more and more out of breath with their exertions the remarks got fewer. Mrs. Quantock's last question had been "What do you do with slugs, Georgie?" and Georgie had panted out, "Pretend you don't see them. ~ E.F. Benson
Gardening quotes by E.F. Benson
The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology. ~ John Burroughs
Gardening quotes by John Burroughs
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. ~ Roberto Burle Marx
Gardening quotes by Roberto Burle Marx
Gardening?" Kaden asked. "Why?"
The assassin looked amused. "We need to eat. The hot blood of the slaughtered is delicious, obviously, but sometimes the body craves vegetables. ~ Brian Staveley
Gardening quotes by Brian Staveley
Beyond its practical aspects, gardening - be it of the soil or soul - can lead us on a philosophical and spiritual exploration that is nothing less than a journey into the depths of our own sacredness and the sacredness of all beings. After all, there must be something more mystical beyond the garden gate, something that satisfies the soul's attraction to beauty, peace, solace, and celebration. ~ Christopher McDowell
Gardening quotes by Christopher McDowell
Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth. ~ Ron Brackin
Gardening quotes by Ron Brackin
Wisteria hangs over the eaves like clumps of ghostly grapes. Euphorbia's pale blooms billow like sea froth. Blood grass twists upward, knifing the air, while underground its roots go berserk, goosing everything in their path. A magnolia, impatient with vulvic flesh, erupts in front of the living room window. The recovering terrorist
holding a watering can filled with equal parts fish fertilizer and water, paisley gloves right up over her freckled forearms, a straw hat with its big brim shading her eyes, old tennis shoes speckled with dew
moves through her front garden. Her face, she tells herself, like a Zen koan. The look of one lip smiling. ~ Zsuzsi Gartner
Gardening quotes by Zsuzsi Gartner
Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought. ~ William Morris
Gardening quotes by William Morris
I struggle sometimes superficially with my management or with my own career about how much time I spend traveling or giving myself away to promote my music or myself when I'd rather be gardening or surfing or being at home with my loved ones. And everyone struggles with that; everyone struggles with having to go to work. And I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. ~ Jason Mraz
Gardening quotes by Jason Mraz
Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me. ~ Emma Tennant
Gardening quotes by Emma Tennant
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. ~ Dixie Lee Ray
Gardening quotes by Dixie Lee Ray
Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture. ~ Paige Butcher
Gardening quotes by Paige Butcher
'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden cannot be made by somebody who has not developed the capacity to know and love growing things. ~ Russell Page
Gardening quotes by Russell Page
To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world. ~ Stanley Crawford
Gardening quotes by Stanley Crawford
Use the water of encouragement on someone else's flowers - especially the flowers that are wilted, trampled on, and taken for granted. But don't nourish the weeds. ~ Hannah Garrison
Gardening quotes by Hannah Garrison
A garden always has a point. ~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Gardening quotes by Elizabeth Hoyt
A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise. ~ Russell Page
Gardening quotes by Russell Page
Many Detroiters, for example, are beginning to see urban agriculture as a real part of the solution; to grow things right where people live, where they work, and definitely need healthier food on the table. Green city gardens are scattered throughout Detroit now, from the schoolyard at Catherine Ferguson Academy for pregnant teens and teen moms, to reclaimed land owned by a local order of Catholic friars (Earthworks), to a seven-acre organic farm in Rouge Park. Together, city gardeners, nonprofit organizations, and the Greening of Detroit resource agency are writing a new local-food story of urban Michigan. ~ Jaye Beeler
Gardening quotes by Jaye Beeler
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. ~ Susan L. Taylor
Gardening quotes by Susan L. Taylor
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. ~ Sean Bean
Gardening quotes by Sean Bean
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant. ~ Margaret Atwood
Gardening quotes by Margaret Atwood
Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them. ~ Margery Fish
Gardening quotes by Margery Fish
Adrienne Rich had it right. No one gives a crap about motherhood unless they can profit off it. Women are expendable and the work of childbearing, done fully, done consciously, is all-consuming. So who's gonna write about it if everyone doing it is lost forever within it? You want adventures, you want poetry and art, you want to salon it up over at Gertrude and Alice's, you'd best leave the messy all-consuming baby stuff to someone else. Birthing and nursing and rocking and distracting and socializing and cooking and washing and gardening and mending: what's that compared with bullets whizzing overhead, dazzling destructive heroics, headlines, parties, ~ Elisa Albert
Gardening quotes by Elisa Albert
This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can. ~ Jane Hirshfield
Gardening quotes by Jane Hirshfield
…there is room enough for a world between a lilac and a wall. ~ Michael Pollan
Gardening quotes by Michael Pollan
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