Marcelene Cox Quotes

I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.

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 love working in the garden.

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

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 abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

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

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Gardening is not a rational act.

I like gardening.

We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.

During the season, you have to grow.

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.

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

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

Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits.

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

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.

If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

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

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

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

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

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.