Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: gardening

I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.

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.

I keep myself busy, I read a lot, watch a lot of TV, and do a lot of gardening. I do stupid stuff and I love it.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

When I'm outside gardening, it can be so inspiring. I think of words and melodies. It's peaceful. Every singer-songwriter should find something outside of music that makes them as happy as gardening makes me.

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.

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.

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 like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots.

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

I really cherish my time at home. As you know, I love my husband so much, but he's always doing everything for me out here to keep me rolling forward. But I don't get to do near enough for him. So when I'm at home, I like to cook for him and do some gardening - all that wife-y kinda stuff, you know?

I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.

I'm not a gardener. I don't have the consistency for gardening, and I have barely enough for an orchard. I don't embarrass myself. You have to be there tending and weeding. With orchards, you can go through negligent periods and recover.

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

I'm really into gardening.

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

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

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

Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people.

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

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.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk.

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

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?

Use plants to bring life.

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.

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.

A weed is but an unloved flower.