Natasha Little Quotes

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.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Gardening is not a rational act.

I love working in the garden.

How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.

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

Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the store And the dimes are the things that he needs, And I've been to buy them in seasons before But have thought of them merely as seeds; But it flashed through my mind as I took them this time, "You purchased a miracle here for a dime."

My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way.

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

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

Everything that pushes up out of the earth I love. Everything under the earth, root vegetables, I love to cook.

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.

Compost makes houseplants very happy.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

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

I'm usually pretty good in the garden.

It's so easy to grow in the ground! It's truly the easiest thing to grow. You can bring kale to you.

I like flowers. In my next life, maybe I can be a gardener.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.

Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.