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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

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

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

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. ↗


— Dorothy Malone


#cotton #dusty #get #horses #i

Ah, this delicious night air,' she said, luxuriously sniffing in the coolness. 'Night air and gardening are the great tonics. There is nothing so stimulating as bare contact with rich mother earth. You are never so fresh as when you have been grubbing in the soil - black hands, black nails, and boots covered with mud.' She gave her great jovial laugh. 'I'm a glutton for air and earth,' she said. 'Positively I look forward to death, for then I shall be buried and have the kind earth all round me. No leaden caskets for me - I have given explicit directions. But what shall I do about air? Well, I suppose one can't have everything.' ("Mrs. Amworth") ↗


— E.F. Benson


#death #garden-gardening #night #night-air #vampire

The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals,water, and air;shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife. ↗


— Toby Hemenway


#food-security #gardening #organic #permaculture #provision

Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... he... felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil. ↗


— J.M. Coetzee


#gardening #grace #labour #food

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness. ↗


— Michael Pollan


#nature #trees #education

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that. ↗


— Edna Ferber


#optimism #life






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