78 RECORDS FOUND
"Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening."
"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."
"My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats."
"My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year."
"I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it."
"Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ."
"Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable."
"The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London."
"I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock."
"Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things."
"I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive."
"I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening."
"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening."
"My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking."
"I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality."
"In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created."
"My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society."
"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."
"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."
"I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens."
"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."
"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
"I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good."
"Garden as though you will live forever."
"I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton."
"If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine."
"Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment."
"If a tree dies, plant another in its place."
"Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot."
"I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with."
"A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy."
"A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion."
"When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us."
"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."
"Use plants to bring life."
"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway."
"Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path."
"The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love."
"I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation."
"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."
"Gardening is not a rational act."
"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."
"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."
"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
"All gardening is landscape painting."
"Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about."
"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
"What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?"
"Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow."
"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul."
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."
"A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself."
"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."
"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
"Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors."
"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."
"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit."
"I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow."
"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace."
"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust."
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures."
"Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful, ' and sitting in the shade."
"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees."
"A good garden may have some weeds."
"In search of my mother's garden, I found my own."
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
"It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest."
"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."
"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."
"It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves."
"I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess."
"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."
"Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get."
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered."
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
"He plants trees to benefit another generation."
