Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.
The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.
I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.
I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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.
I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.