#gardening

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens. ↗

— Elton John

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I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

#being #closest #come #creation #hooks

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? ↗

— Francis Cabot Lowell

#accomplish #beginning #enough #far #garden

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#back #hinge #man #man needs #needs

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#presidents #science #spring #science

Our most important job as vegetable gardeners is to feed and sustain soil life, often called the soil food web, beginning with the microbes. If we do this, our plants will thrive, we’ll grow nutritious, healthy food, and our soil conditions will get better each year. This is what is meant by the adage ”Feed the soil not the plants. ↗

— Jane Shellenberger

#plants #soil #food

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

#birth #comes #darkness #ever #faithful

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#apart #breeding #improved #knowledge #love

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece ↗

— Claude Monet

#france #gardening #art

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

#aesthetic #also #artist #color #complex