G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it a better neighbor. To other's eyes, all may look as well as could be expected, but a good gardener's eye sees more to be improved.”
“Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.”
“Gardenia: A flowering shrub in the madder family with large white blossoms whose plush, peachy scent offers comfort to those who are grieving”
Source: The Memory Gardener
“Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden.”
Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone
“Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends. There's never a shortage of things to do, no limit to the lessons that can be learned, especially for children, and there's always plenty of credit to go around, even for the mistakes.”
“Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.”
“Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.”
“Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.”
Source: Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal
“Gardening gives you an appreciation for the strength of life, but it also shows you its fragility.”
Source: A Pandemic Gardening Journal
“Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.”
“Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.”
Source: Theme Gardens
“Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.”
Source: The province of the heart
“Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC.”
“Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.”
“Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.”
“Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.”
“Gardening is a humbling experience.”
Source: Martha Stewart's gardening, month by month
“Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.”
“Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.”
Source: Silva: or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions
“Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.”
“gardening is a madness and a rapture.”
Source: What a Woman Must Do: A Novel
“gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.”
Source: At Seventy: A Journal
“Gardening is a whole different ball game to farming, it’s part of the solution to which farming is part of the problem.”
Source: Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy
“Gardening is about communication, relationships, routines and life-enrichment. Gardens are places that connect us to the seasons and the life cycle. They're a vehicle for talking about esoteric and - as far as TV goes - alien topics such as beauty and fulfilment.”
“Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.”
“Gardening is all about optimism.”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“Gardening is all about optimism. I put a seed in the ground. I consistently tend it, confident I will see the results, in time, of the nurture I have provided.”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing.”
Source: The amateur's flower garden
“Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.”
“Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.”
“Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires a certain goodness on the part of the gardener: care, humility, patience, and respect, for example.”
“Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
Source: The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering
“Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.”
Source: The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
“Gardening is easier and quicker when spacings are correct for different plants.”
Source: Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
“Gardening is easier than it is often made out to be.”
Source: Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
“Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.”
“Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.”
“Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows.”
Source: We Made a Garden
“Gardening is not a rational act.”
Source: Bluebeard's Egg
“Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.”
Source: Bluebeard's Egg
“Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.”
“Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.”
“Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.”
Source: Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal
“Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.”
“Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around and walk around. Apparently people often see me standing there and they wave to me and I don't see them because I am reading the landscape.”
“gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.”
Source: The Glory of the Garden
“Gardening is the best therapy in the world.”
“Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.”
“Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.”
“Gardening is the instrument of grace.”