“Like people, plants respond to extra attention.” PeopleAttentionGardenPlantExtras Author:H. Peter Loewer
“Just as an earthly garden needs constant attention, so, too, does our spiritual garden. When we first begin our journey of spirituality our garden is filled with all sorts of interesting items--it was not, after all, a fallow place before we sought to investigate what might be there and what we could possibly put in it. Everyone's spiritual garden is different, because each individual is unique.” NeedsFirstsDoeDifferentMightSpiritualSpiritualityIndividualInterestingAttentionJourneyUniqueGardenFilledConstantItems Book:A Witch's Notebook: Lessons in Witchcraft Source: A Witch's Notebook: Lessons in Witchcraft
“I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.” SoulWaitingCitiesAttentionQuietTravelGardenStonesRichesArchitectureTreasureWanderYieldFormalMedievalIntrospectiveCourteousClamorHidden Treasure Author:Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
“I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.” DarkAttentionFlowerGrewNeededOne DayGardenDecidedFilledConstantThings To DoDark ThoughtsBetter Things To Do Author:Brian Andreas
“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” GrowsEffortAttentionAmbitionGardenLaborPlantIntentionPatientThriveGardeningGood IntentionsGardening And GodInspirational GardeningPlanting A GardenPlants Growing Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey
“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?” LifeGivingTryingFacesWalksAttentionTreeFlowerGardenDanceForestsBouquetsForests And TreesArbor DayPlants And FlowersFlowering Trees Book:Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism Source: Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism
“They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.” NeedsYearsAgeThreeGrowsAttentionGrowing UpFiveMonthsGardenConstantFive YearsGapsWeedSiblingThree MonthsAge Gap Author:Zadie Smith
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.” IfsChildrenAttentionInspireGardenPaidOur ChildrenPlantParentingWeedJungleConcrete Jungle Author:Luther Burbank
“Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.” AttentionGrowingBuildingAdventureGardenSeasonsConstantPlantEndureStormGardenerGreat AdventureVicissitudes Author:Paulo Coelho
“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.” WayEnoughStoriesSpeakNatureNaturalPayAttentionEnvironmentLandAwarenessQuietGardenPatiencePatientPay AttentionNature And EnvironmentNature BeautyInspirational NatureNature And BeautyThe Wild NatureNature's BeautyInspiring NatureBeing NaturalChildren And NatureTime And Patience Author:Linda Hogan
“Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.” IfsKindEnoughAttentionToo MuchFlowerGardenWeedNow And ThenFeedingKind WordsFlowers And Gardens Author:Victoria Glendinning
“People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.” PeopleNeedsDifferentSometimesHardCareMovingGrowsNaturalWalksDealsPayAttentionBreakTakenGrowingMindfulnessGardenToolsRootsFingersLeavingSpreadTechniquePay AttentionWeedGardeningOne DirectionSquashGrowing Things Author:Surya Das
“Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.” WorldLifeFirstsArtWholeSeemsBeautifulArtistAttentionExampleReturnGardenSightLandscapeWorks Of ArtGlobesStatuesSonnetOutlines Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson