#gardening

Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be highly satisfying. ↗

— David Wheeler

#motivation #motivational

One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores. ↗

— Douglas Tallamy

#conservation #diversity #endangered #extinction #gardening

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#gardening #grown #i #just #like

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

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

— Francis Bacon

#almighty #first #garden #god #god almighty

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

#birch #couple #doing #few #gardening

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good. ↗

— Michael Fish

#again #am #back #good #i

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

— Steven Cojocaru

#fashion #gardening #hold #i #like

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth. ↗

— George Eliot

#garden #gardening #silas-marner #food

It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life-after-death #resurrection #seeds #spring #death