Emilia Fox Quotes

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.

I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

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.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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

I love being in the woods, when I can just walk barefoot in the grass and just sit down and breathe. I love that so much.

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

I really enjoy surfing a lot. It's an awesome sport. With surfing there are no mind games versus Peyton Manning, or versus anyone else. It's not me trying to throw a certain shot put further - or to put a ball in a hoop, it's just me against mother nature.

I garden. It's very relaxing to me.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.

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

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

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

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.

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 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.

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.