Hope Jahren Quotes

Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

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

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

Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Maybe because I'm a Taurus, I like to watch plants grow.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.

Relationships are like the world's most intense yoga! It's a daily practice.

I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated - some might say impossible. Telling someone to be authentic sounds pretty low calorie, especially to a founder plowing through a list of product and operational goals. But it's important.

I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.

I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

I reflect over my actions; I don't dwell on them.