When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such

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

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Gardens
category

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often — just to save it from drying out completely. – Pam Brown

Category:
Gardens

Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them. – Victoria Glendinning

Category:
Gardens

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. – Charles Lamb, 1830

Category:
Gardens

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Category:
Gardens

Random Quotes

Now that Im a dad, Im practicing what I call one- handed cooking, because Ive got something more important in my other arm. Im whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets. – Curtis Stone

Category:
dad

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief. – Georg Simmel

Category:
Faith

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me. – David Bailey

Category:
Attitude

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator. – Percy Wynham Lewis

Category:
Principles