#gardening

He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard and forget her children. That was why. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#gardening #war #life

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. ↗

— Luis Barragan

#combine #feeling #garden #joy #must

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#come #gardening #helping #helping people #hindsight

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#18th century #20th century #century #finished #finished work

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#everything #garden #library #need #you

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#gardening #self-sufficiency #art

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

— S. Kelley Harrell

#sacred-space #spirituality #nature

A daffodil bulb will divide and redivide endlessly. That's why, like the peony, it is one of the few flowers you can find around abandoned farmhouses, still blooming and increasing in numbers fifty years after the farmer and his wife have moved to heaven, or the other place, Boca Raton. If you dig up a clump when no one is nearby and there is no danger of being shot, you'll find that there are scores of little bulbs in each clump, the progeny of a dozen or so planted by the farmer's wife in 1942. If you take these home, separate them, and plant them in your own yard, within a couple of years, you'll have a hundred daffodils for the mere price of a trespassing fine or imprisonment or both. I had this adventure once, and I consider it one of the great cheap thrills of my gardening career. I am not advocating trespassing, especially on my property, but there is no law against having a shovel in the trunk of your car. ↗

— Cassandra Danz

#flowers #gardening #humor #trespassing #home

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden. ↗

— Eric Morecambe

#asked #could #course #garden #him

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#doing #find #funny #funny things #gardening