Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: gardening

I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering 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.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

As an athlete, if you train your body but don't fuel it the right way, that doesn't make much sense. Adopting a plant-based diet with the right amount of proteins that came from the right places was the way to go. I also just love gardening.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Gardening is not a rational act.

To dwell is to garden.

I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more.

Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can't stand going to the gym. It doesn't appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.

We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise. That is easy to see and evaluate. It inculcates high levels of well-being. That is undeniable and needs little measurement.

My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable - it would be weeding the strawberries, mowing the grass.

I don't think about being the Colin Firth of the gardening world. I live a very insular world based around my family and my home, and to them I'm not the Colin Firth of anything.

We are extremely uncomfortable with the spiritual aspects of gardening, and yet most people feel it in some form or other, even if it's a sense of connection to the greater world on a beautiful day.

The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.

We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise.

There is a direct correlation between gardening and mental health, not just to maintain good mental health but to repair it as well - that's anything in the gamut from depression to serious brain damage, schizophrenia or autism.

I think that's my strength, that I am an amateur gardener who loves gardening. I've read about it, I've written about it, I've done it all my life but at heart, I'm just a passionate amateur gardener.

I think we put far too much interest in trying to get ten to 20 year olds interested in gardening. I think you should do everything you can to try and get them interested up to the age of 10.

I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

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

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.

I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.

There were points when I've thought about getting into landscape gardening or getting back to illustrating, but mostly with a bit of a chip on my shoulder.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

Flowers are happy things.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Besides gardening, I love to sketch and to sing.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

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.

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.