Gardening As Therapy Quotes

“Modern life is, for most of us, a kind of serfdom to mortgage, job and the constant assault to consume. Although we have more time and money than ever before, most of us have little sense of control over our own lives. It is all connected to the apathy that means fewer and fewer people vote. Politicians don’t listen to us anyway. Big business has all the power; religious extremism all the fear. But in the garden or allotment we are king or queen. It is our piece of outdoors that lays a real stake to the planet.”
― Monty Don, My Roots: A Decade in the 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.”
― May Sarton

“There's something satisfying about getting your hands in the soil.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“You can get attached to plants when you lose faith in people.”
― Manuele Fior, 5,000 Kilometers Per Second

“The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us.”
― F.T. McKinstry, Ascarion

“Wisteria hangs over the eaves like clumps of ghostly grapes. Euphorbia's pale blooms billow like sea froth. Blood grass twists upward, knifing the air, while underground its roots go berserk, goosing everything in their path. A magnolia, impatient with vulvic flesh, erupts in front of the living room window. The recovering terrorist--holding a watering can filled with equal parts fish fertilizer and water, paisley gloves right up over her freckled forearms, a straw hat with its big brim shading her eyes, old tennis shoes speckled with dew--moves through her front garden. Her face, she tells herself, like a Zen koan. The look of one lip smiling.”
― Zsuzsi Gartner, Better Living Through Plastic Explosives

“Each of us is like seed, planted by the Good Gardener so we might grow into something majestic.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

“Spring time is nature at its best.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.”
― Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Resist

“Stopping at a damask rose bush laden with pink flowers, she cuts several stems, laying them in her basket before bending to breathe in their fragrance, sweet and pungent like Turkish delight. Further on, she trims bunches of ruffled sweet-pea blossoms, growing in spirals around tall cane pyramids.”
― Hannah Richell, The Peacock Summer

“I have always thought of urban gardens - most gardens - as islands, where we create our own kingdoms, acting out our need for land, nurture and nature. On this weekend all these tiny islands wake again, each one crammed with insects, birdsong (often far better in town than country) and slow-moving people emerging into this gift of extra light.”
― Montagu Don, My Roots: A Decade in the Garden

“There is something soothing about working in the yard. Planting seeds and seeing them poke green out of the dirt. And it gets you out of the house with out going too far.”
― Michael Lee West, Crazy Ladies

“Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

“We’re all given gifts in life, it’s what we do with them that shows us what we’ve learned.”
― Lise-Lotte Loomer, Greenhouse Hygge: The House of My Growing Dreams

“Children who grow what they eat will often eat what they grow”
― Melanie Charlene

“Mum had often said she was closest to God when in her garden, and as the years rolled by I understood what she meant: crafting beauty generates tender thoughts. And isn’t that what creation is all about?”
― David Scott, Stargazer

“I let Annabel show me how to do it, and together we planted the tomatoes. Once I'd done one or two, I discovered that I liked it, and that furthermore tomato plants smelled good. Not a pretty smell, but an interesting one, peppery and green. I could smell it on my hands, and in the sunny air.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Garden of Small Beginnings

“The point is that this is all gardening. The garden runs through our lives like a river through a field, like air in our lungs. The garden does not end in space any more than it does in time. The flowers grow as much in our minds as in the soil. There are very few nights when I do not lie in the dark, everyone else sleeping inside this creaking, bony house, and go through the garden, seeing it with the clarity of a dreamer, taking it to pieces and putting it together again, mending everything in my head.”
― Montagu Don, My Roots: A Decade in the Garden

“I say: Once you go green
You won't let the blues in.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“When I am grieved in spirit, or vexed in temper, by the unavoidable cares of my little world, I go out and -work- in my garden; and in the healthful exercise of body, and the beautiful soul-subduing quiet that pervades the place, and steals like a healing balm over my mind, I soon forget my troubles.' -- ELIZABETH CARRINGTON MORRIS, Article for -American Agriculturalist-, April 1846.”
― Catherine McNeur, Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science

“When we create a garden, no matter how small or where it is in the world, we enrich the world as a whole.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Each pile of compost is a story of transformation.”
― Andrew Schmitz, Black Gold Composting Guide: Gardener’s science behind making your own sustainable fertilizer

“I planted flowers,
and they planted hope in me.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Slipping into another world

“An avocado of hope
ripens in one corner,
while a pomegranate of faith
bursts open in another.

Vivid tulips unfurl
their petals of dreams,
as hybrid lilies embrace
the sturdy guava’s roots.

Mimosa of forgiveness,
Basil of kindness,
and mint of tolerance
sway in harmony,
whispering peace
to the passing breeze.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliyahapaliya

“An avocado of hope
ripens in one corner,
while a pomegranate of faith
bursts open in another.

Vivid tulips unfurl
their petals of dreams,
as hybrid lilies embrace
the sturdy guava’s roots.

Mimosa of forgiveness,
Basil of kindness,
and mint of tolerance
sway in harmony,
whispering peace
to the passing breeze.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Our Nepal, Our Pride