Quotes of Husbandry - somelinesforyou

“ You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. ”

- Unknown

“ Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration. ”

- Lou Erickson

“ I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ”

- Bill Watterson

“ Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. ”

- Unknown

“ Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. ”

- Unknown

“ In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. ”

- Robert Brault

“ God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. ”

- Unknown

“ I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ”

- Unknown

“ There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. ”

- Terri Guillemets

“ The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. ”

- Frank McKinney Hubbard

“ Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick. ”

- Thomas Adams

“ I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. ”

- Phyllis Theroux

“ More than 15 percent of the jobs in Ohio are tied in some way to agriculture. A strong agriculture means a strong economy. ”

- John Fisher

“ Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture. ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ This economy is still vigorous. ”

- Robert Reich

“ This is a vision of the future,... Every vision of nationalism, of a closed economy, of protectionism goes against the successful path of globalization and of progressive economies. ”

- Vicente Fox

“ Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real. ”

- Pat Roberts

“ What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. ”

- Charles Dudley Warner

“ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ”

- H. Fred Ale

“ By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit as a robber. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ”

- Orson Scott Card

“ The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ”

- Booker T. Washington

“ Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. ”

- Alfred Austin
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