#gardening

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. ↗

— Amy Stewart

#nature #patience #nature

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality. ↗

— Adam Ant

#back #did #doing #east #gardening

Gardening is not a rational act. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#act #rational

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#almighty #first #garden #god #god almighty

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#catch #decorating #gardener #home #i

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#fashion #gardening #hold #i #like

The fundamental metaphor of National Socialism as it related to the world around it was the garden, not the wild forest. One of the most important Nazi ideologists, R.W. Darré, made clear the relationship between gardening and genocide: “He who leaves the plants in a garden to themselves will soon find to his surprise that the garden is overgrown by weeds and that even the basic character of the plants has changed. If therefore the garden is to remain the breeding ground for the plants, if, in other words, it is to lift itself above the harsh rule of natural forces, then the forming will of a gardener is necessary, a gardener who, by providing suitable conditions for growing, or by keeping harmful influences away, or by both together, carefully tends what needs tending and ruthlessly eliminates the weeds which would deprive the better plants of nutrition, air, light, and sun. . . . Thus we are facing the realization that questions of breeding are not trivial for political thought, but that they have to be at the center of all considerations, and that their answers must follow from the spiritual, from the ideological attitude of a people. We must even assert that a people can only reach spiritual and moral equilibrium if a well-conceived breeding plan stands at the very center of its culture. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#domestication #gardening #nazism #weeds #attitude

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

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