We have descended into
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. Evelyn Underhill
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We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. Evelyn Underhill
I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We’re Cuban, and it’s a hot island. Why not? Eva Mendes
If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening. Evagrius Ponticus
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion. Eudora Welty
Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and – above all – beyond expectations. Because the spiritual is beyond our control, it is never exactly what we expect. Ernest Kurtz
How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know. Ernest Henry Wilson
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn’t take it out of my garden. Eric Morecambe
Writer’s block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block. Emo Philips
Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome. Emily Dickinson
There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis. Emily Oster