Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

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

Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

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

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

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

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.

I'm really into gardening.

I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

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

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

I like gardening.

I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden is always the story of a person.

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'm a huge garden and landscape fanatic.