Top 1200 Gardening And God Quotes & Sayings

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

I'm really into gardening.

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.

I've got really into gardening.

I do the gardening.

There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year.

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.

Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.

Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires a certain goodness on the part of the gardener: care, humility, patience, and respect, for example.

God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of books, techniques, tools, chemicals, fertilizers, fancy hybrids, and expectations. Yet, that is exactly what we must do if we are to fully embrace a more spiritual form of gardening. As a part of Nature we must learn to enter our garden as if it were truly sacred, we must learn to enter with humility.

I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul.

Besides gardening, I love to sketch and to sing.

Computers, singing, reading, painting and gardening are my hobbies.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

Gardening is all about optimism.

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

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.

Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

Liberal gardeners are people who feel that, through gardening, we can alleviate our sense of alienation from nature; and that, through good gardening, we can repair some of the damage we have done to our environment. The most extreme liberals believe that there is an original or a natural state in which the environment would be if we hadn't shown up on the scene, and that we have not only the ability but also a moral imperative to help nature return to this state.

I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners. . . . Gardening seems to me a kind of admission of defeat. . . . Man was made for better things than pruning his rose trees. The state of mind of the confirmed gardener seems to me as reprehensible as that of the confirmed alcoholic. Both have capitulated to the world. Both have become lotus eaters and drifters.

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not loved. That is sin.

There is no gardening without humility

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

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

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

Gardening is the best therapy in the world.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt.

Gardening and my culinary skills keep me busy.

much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.

I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.

Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden.

Gardening does so much for your brain. You're learning how a process works, and how important it is to do everything right so that you can eventually enjoy a tomato three months later. I've always been patient, but gardening really helps you with that.

It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking... and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs, perennials and ground-covers, with bulbs... This has been called gardening in four layers, and I believe it to be the most satisfying form of gardening.

gardening is a madness and a rapture.

Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.

Gardening is the instrument of grace.

All gardening is landscape painting.

Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard and forget her children. That was why.

I think gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. True gardeners are both iconographers and theologians insofar as these activities are the fruit of prayer 'without ceasing.' Likewise, true gardeners never cease to garden, not even in their sleep, because gardening is not just something they do. It is how they live.

Gardening is one of my enduring, favourite, and most rewarding pastimes.

I like gardening.

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.