Quotes For Gardeners

Play, Games, Creativity

Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo

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This is the real secret of life - to be completely
engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.
And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
- Alan Watts, Work as Play

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head,
and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
- Alan Beck

It is only in playing that the individual is able to be creative
and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being
creative that the individual discovers the self.
- Donald Winnicott

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her
with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857), A Land of Plenty

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life -
learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing
and dance and play and work every day some.
- Robert Fulghum, All I Need to Know

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The supreme accomplishment is to
blur the line between work and play.
- Arnold Toynbee

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
- Anthony J. DeAngelo

Play is the taproot from which original art springs.
It is the raw stuff that the artist channels
with all his learning and technique.
- Stephen Nachmanovich

We may play with and pass on a garden, possessing one is an illusion.
Gardeners must dance with feedback, play with results, turn as they learn.
Some gardeners don't grow old and stop playing; they stop playing and grow old.
Nature's playfulness is a gardener's delight.
A garden is a sporting field, an area for play.

- Michael P. Garofalo, Pulling Onions: The Maxims of Gardening

In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila,
the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy,
they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word
illusion is ludere, to play.
- Alan Watts, Work as Play

Leisure - Quotes for Gardeners

Life consists not in holding good cards
but in playing those you hold well.
- Josh Billings

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
- Joseph Heller

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love
and to work and to play and to look at the stars.
- Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr. (1852-1933)

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten

At books, or work, or healthy play,
Let all my years be passed;
That I may give for every day
A good account at last.
- Isaac Watts (1674-1748), Divine Songs for Children

Work - Quotes for Gardeners

Don't stint on foreplay -- or afterplay. Be inventive!
- Dr. Ruth Westheimer

All the genuine, deep delight of life is in showing people the mud-pies
you have made; and life is at its best when we confidingly recommend
our mud-pies to each other's sympathetic consideration.
- A. M. Thornburn

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.
- Mencius

The true object of all human life is play.
Earth is a task garden;
heaven is a playground.
- G. K. Chesterton

It is a happy talent to know how to play.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- Benjamin Franklin

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing
by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
- Mike Konda

The cat has nine lives: three for playing,
three for straying, three for staying.
- Proverb

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Advice from Wise Persons

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The Good Life

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play,
his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation,
his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his
vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he
is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
- James A. Michener

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing -
just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree
limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children
playing in the park?
- Ralph Marston

Life choices involve playing games:
sometimes you throw the dice,
sometimes you play chess.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves,
or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.
- Charles Schaefer

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