Emilio Estevez Quotes

In some other life I must have been a pioneer woman because I love to have my hands in the dirt.

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

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

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.

I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Growing things and being able to live off the land has always appealed to me.

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

Working with the earth is peaceful for me.

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

I love working 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'm an active participation guy. No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.

Spreading manure is a great way of bringing yourself down to earth.

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

I'm attracted to people who work their little plot of land and cultivate it and cultivate it.

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."