Vegetable garden quotes by topic: Attitude to vegetable garden, People and vegetable garden, Food and vegetable garden, Harvest and vegetable garden, Vegetables and vegetable garden, Life and vegetable garden, Flower garden and vegetable garden, Care and vegetable garden, Money and vegetable garden, Soil and vegetable garden, Vegetable gardening features, etc.
Attitude to vegetable garden
What was paradise, but a garden full of vegetables and herbs and pleasure? Nothing there but delights. (William Lawson)
I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus. (Henry David Thoreau)
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. (Gertrude Stein)
I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it’s in the blood. (Terry Pratchett)
I’m in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I’ve got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I’ve got my work 40 yards from my home. I don’t mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly? (Jay Kay)
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
As for vegetables, I do not consider a plot of ground devoted to them worthy of the honorable name of garden. Vegetables are, of course, a part of gardening, but the least, the last, — for those who do not have to raise them, the most dishonorable part. (H.G. Dwight)
People and vegetable garden
I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night’s Dream. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be. (E.B. White)
Imagine if we grew in the ground like vegetables! (Michele Lemieux)
When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds – rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes. (Doris Lessing)
Even though we lived in the Garden State, it was more important to display a beautiful lawn to our neighbors than to boast a bounty of healthy vegetables. I never saw one vegetable garden in my neighborhood nor in any of my friends’, until I planted one. (Donna Maltz)
Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant’s hood of heart-shaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods hanging underneath could make me catch my breath. (Michael Pollan)
Food and vegetable garden
I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I’m serving started out as a seed in my yard. (Curtis Stone)
Backyard gardening can inspire you to take an interest in the origins of your food and make better choices about what you put on your plate. (Helen Delichatsios)
After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual “food” out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. (Miss Piggy)
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (Wendell Berry)
I don’t have a garden. I don’t need it, I ‘m going to Picard. There’s everything, it’s fresh, and you can also find things that would be difficult to grow in a vegetable garden, herring for example. (Jean Yanne)
I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I’m grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body. (Gisele Bundchen)
Harvest and vegetable garden
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown. (Alice B. Toklas)
I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries. (Novella Carpenter)
The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby – how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown. (Alice B. Toklas)
Digging potatoes is always an adventure, somewhat akin to fishing. There is forever the possibility that the next cast – or the next thrust of the digging fork – will turn up a clunker. (Jerome Belanger)
The abundance of everything around was so great, that.. over-ripe fruit strewed the ground unheeded, while peas and beanstalks, still loaded, were blackening and yellowing in the sun; and vegetables running on all sides to waste. (Anne Marsh)
Vegetables and vegetable garden
I had to make enough turnips to make it a real vegetable garden. (Jean Lefebvre)
I cultivate my garden. And in my professional life as in my garden square, I have every intention of excluding turnips! (Louis de Funes)
To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables. (Prince Charles)
Cabbage: a familiar vegetable grown in kitchen gardens, which is about equal in size and wisdom to a man’s head. (Ambrose Bierce)
In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul. (Charles Dudley Warner)
Life and vegetable garden
Let’s cultivate a vegetable garden, it’s not only producing vegetables, it’s learning to marvel at the mystery of life. (Pierre Rabhi)
In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. (Kin Hubbard)
Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything. (Barbara Kingsolver)
I thought I’d love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps. (Curtis Stone)
Flower garden and vegetable garden
He who sows flowers will not reap vegetables. (Brigitte Fuchs)
Ah, neither snowdrops nor crocuses smell of Spring so convincingly in spring, As the first cucumber from the garden smells!.. (Sofia Parnok)
There is a love that grows fragrant flowers, and there is love that grows nourishing vegetables; the two can neither understand nor appreciate each other, even if they want to, and that brings much heartache and much sin into the world! (Helene Countess of Waldersee)
I have always thought a kitchen garden a more pleasant sight than the finest orangery. I love to see everything in perfection and am more pleased to survey my rows of coleworts and cabbages, with a thousand nameless pot herbs springing up in their full fragrancy and verdure than to see the tender plants of foreign countries. (Joseph Addison)
Care and vegetable garden
Cares melt when you kneel in your garden. (Okakura Kakuzo)
All my hurts my garden spade can heal. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. (Lewis Grizzard)
I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water. (Joan Miro)
I, too, was always at home, digging, weeding, poking, handling the watering can, inspecting everything that grew every day, and therefore I became intimately acquainted with every rose, every cabbage, and every cucumber. A somewhat restricted world, it seems. And yet, when one rightly considers it, all that stuff, each of which is infinite and unfathomable, is no less remarkable than the Alps and the sea, than Japan and China. (Wilhelm Busch)
Money and vegetable garden
Growing your own food is like printing your own money. (Ron Finley)
Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $371.49 each. (Andy Rooney)
There’s no more shy than a football player. As soon as we give him money, he will quickly bury it in the garden. (Patrick Timsit)
Soil and vegetable garden
Manure: The Vegetable Garden War Memorial. (Sylvain Tesson)
Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor’s motorized garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one. (Dave Barry)
Anyone who claims there’s never a need to go back behind a job well done has probably never weeded a garden. (R. Ethier)
Vegetable gardening features
Vegetable gardening might be considered one of the great conservative rituals. (David M. Tucker)
There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. (Janet Kilburn Phillips)
As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience. Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time. (M.J. Ryan)
Death and vegetable garden
Flowers and vegetables await death in the penitentiary of a vegetable garden. (Sylvain Tesson)
I want to die planting my cabbages. (Michel de Montaigne)
Old people should not think about death: let them take care of how best to loosen the beds in the garden. (Michel de Montaigne)
Mind and vegetable garden
A vegetable garden doesn’t just feed your body. It also feeds your soul. (Doug Green)
Growing your own vegetables is food for both your mind and body. (Dot Cruickshank)
The little vegetable garden that I have in my heart consoles me for the great culture that I do not have in my head. (Sim)
Orchard and vegetable garden
This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal…. We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke. (Jane Grigson)
Can the garden afford anything more delightful to view than those forests of asparagus, artichokes, lettuce, peas, beans, and other legumes and sedulous plants so different in color and of such various shapes. (Stephen Switzer)
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