When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.
I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.
Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.
My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.
The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.
Nature abhors a garden.
Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC.
I'm interested in acting as much as I'm interested in gardening. I want to garden, eventually. I want to learn how to do a lot of things. I've always wanted to learn how to paint, too. I'd like to try everything, but music is my reason for living.
People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.
I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
Gardening. . . demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.
The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.
Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck - without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming.
If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.
God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.