Chris Lane Quotes

I was a landscaper for three years and loved it.

I do the gardening.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

I do have a bit of a garden, and I'd love a hovercraft to get around it - one of the big four-seater ones with the fan on the back.

I've always loved being outdoors, getting my hands dirty.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

I go out and walk around the yard. Sometimes I'll cut grass.

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

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.

When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

Seven years I worked in landscaping. It was a good job, I don't complain. I liked going out to different houses every day, traveling.

I like to garden, particularly mowing grass.

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'm a huge garden and landscape fanatic.

My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.

I like being outside and I like hard work.

I grew up doing some landscaping and painting houses and that kind of thing.

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

She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.

I'm not saying find someone and ask them if you can mow their grass for ten dollars. I'm saying find weeds that need pulling and pull them.

Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.