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“In a field I am the absence of field.That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the space where my body has been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.”

Has Beens Reason Whole Body Moving Spirit Religion Spirituality Space Walks Cases Air Missing Fields Garden Absence Gardening

Author:Mark Strand

“Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power.”

Feelings Spirit Religion Spirituality Imagination Natural Objects Please Garden Claims Infinite Delight Gardening Infinite Power

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“For optimal health, we need body and spirit, exercise (ming) and meditation, awareness of the inner world and the outer. In other words, health requires balance and moderation. The goal of qigong may be summarized as xing ming shuang xiu,spirit and body equally refined and cultivated. Cultivate your whole being, as you would cultivate a garden with attention, care, and even love.”

World Needs May Whole Body Care Spirit Religion Spirituality Goal Attention Meditation Awareness Balance Exercise Garden Gardening Moderation Refined Inner World Optimal Qigong

Author:Ken Cohen

“The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.”

States Form Science Nature Natural United United States Photography Bird Fishes Gardening Maintenance Aquariums Natural History Bird Watching

Book:The Nature of Natural History

Source: The Nature of Natural History

“Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.”

Alive Bird Blue Green Cooking Gardening

Author:Charles Bowden

“I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.”

Interest Garden Dirty Knees Gardening Armchairs

Author:Nick Cave

“Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers”

“Gardening is an instrument of grace.”

Grace Instruments Gardening

Book:The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering

Source: The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering

“Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”

“March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.”

Funny March Lions Gardening Lambs

Author:Mae West

“The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.”

Humans Spirit Purpose Religion Spirituality Highest Sacred Celebrate Gardening

Author:N. Scott Momaday

“When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.”

Heart Form Used Spirit Religion Spirituality Garden Impression Lasting Gardening Contemplating Pauses Lasting Impressions

Author:Muso Soseki

“.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.”

Spirit Religion Spirituality All Things Stones Woods Grass Gardening Blades Blades Of Grass

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth. This arcane act of nature, though perceived by us as ordinary, is a manifestation of Maya's phantom play, the great immensity expressed in every way. My garden is the universe. I am the universe. I am my garden. All things are the same.”

Way Play Earth Spirit Religion Spirituality Universe Late Ordinary Garden All Things Manifestation Heat Tall Gardening Purple August Stalking Phantoms Immensity Purgatory Arcane Iridescent

Author:Duane Michals

“God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.”

Spirit Religion Spirituality Pure Gardening Concealed

Author:Angelus Silesius

“A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.”

World Should Spirit Religion Spirituality Mines Strange Glory Fairs Stranger Treasure Gardening Strange Things

Author:Thomas Traherne

“In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.”

Knows Spirit Religion Spirituality Childhood Call Me Willingness Take Me Gardening

Book:Last stand: America's virgin lands

Source: Last stand: America's virgin lands

“It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life.”

Trying Use Earth Form Spirit Religion Spirituality Term Plant Response Gardening Say Anything Expressive

Author:John Hay

“It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.”

Spirit Religion Spirituality Gardening

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“A garden is a private world or it is nothing.”

World Spirit Religion Spirituality Garden Gardening

Book:Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden

Source: Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden

“When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling as if he had a strange communion with it, as if the gentian yielded up its blueness, its very essence, to him. Everything he met had the newness of a creation just that moment come into being.”

Source: Not I, But the Wind... by Frieda Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck - without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming.”

“In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.”

Believe Children Garden Seeds Fairy Gardening Gardener

Author:Robert Breault

“As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.”

Believe Has Beens Existence Evidence Garden Gardening Gardener Gardening And God Planting A Garden Evidence Of God

Author:Robert Breault

“I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.”

Garden Gardening Gardener

Author:Robert Breault

“Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.”

Writing Art Creativity Keys Gardening Sculpture

Author:Roy Blount, Jr.

“I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.”

Ifs Looks Long Art Grows Nice Borders Why Not Gardening Herbs

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.”

Wealth Successful Taste Gardening

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.”

Should Cat Should Have Nine Gardening Gardener

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.”

Home Courses Fans Particular Exercise Activity Projects Improvement Productive Gardening Home Improvement

Author:Andrew Weil

“One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.”

Ifs Jobs Turns Principles Cutting Failing Magic Flower Plant Delight Seeds Revelations Productive Gardening

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.”

Ifs I Can One Thing Essentials Garden Surprise Gardening Surprise Me

Author:David Hobson

“I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.”

Feels My Time Gardening Constructive

Author:Simon Baker

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

Gardening Therapeutic Smelly

Author:Clive Anderson

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”

“Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds, and I don't know when I shall be able to arrange things otherwise. Nor do I know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory.”

Thinking Knows Writing Book Country Sometimes Able Science Failing Ought Thousand Gardening Laboratory

Author:Marie Curie

“In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.”

Thinking Way Done Play Used Painting Wall Plant Finished Theatre Realising Gardening

Author:Lee Hall

“The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.”

Thinking Mind Body Activity Lonely Rounds Excitement Thoughtful Occupation Leisure Gardening Breeze

Author:Augustus William Hare

“Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.”

Art Culture Creative Painting Flower Periods Drama Skills Landscape Anarchy Gardening Arrangements Culmination Japanese Culture Landscape Painting No Drama

Author:John Roberts

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