Phyllis Theroux Quotes

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.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

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.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

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.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

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 always has been an art, essentially.

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

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

I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.

Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens.

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

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

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.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

I garden. It's very relaxing to me.

It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

Gardening is not a rational act.

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

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.