#gardening

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. ↗

— Ruth Stout

#inspirational #inspirational

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

You're not a gardener, are you? So perhaps you don't know that once a garden is established, much of good gardening is about removal rather than planting, honing what you have to produce a pleasing effect, sacrificing the particular for the good of the whole. Gardening is a creative pastime, but the result is always a work in progress; unlike a painting or a piece of music a garden is never fixed in time. ("In The Garden") ↗

— Rosalie Parker

#gardening #gardens #music

It didn’t occur to me that… that gardening, like music, could demand practice, patience, a willingness to make mistakes. ↗

— Amy Stewert

#music

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

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 don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. ↗

— Walt Disney

#formal #gardens #guess #i #instinct

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. ↗

— Voltaire

#born #cultivate #eden #garden #man

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ↗

— Alice Walker

#found #garden #i #mother #my own

Use plants to bring life. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#bring #life #plants #use