{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Seth Adam Smith","tags":["gardening","gardening-as-therapy","growth","sacrifice","seed","selfishness","selflessness"],"id":10764,"author_id":"Seth+Adam+Smith"},{"text":"After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her.The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made.","author":"Stephen M. Irwin","tags":["choices","flowers","garden","gardening","mother","sacrifices","son","unfairness-of-life","weeding","weeds"],"id":12039,"author_id":"Stephen+M.+Irwin"},{"text":"For you little gardener and lover of trees, I have only a small gift. Here is set G for Galadriel, but it may stand for garden in your tongue. In this box there is earth from my orchard, and such blessing as Galadriel has still to bestow is upon it. It will not keep you on your road, nor defend you against any peril; but if you keep it and see your home again at last, then perhaps it may reward you. Though you should find all barren and laid waste, there will be few gardens in Middle-earth that will bloom like your garden, if you sprinkle this earth there. Then you may remember Galadriel, and catch a glimpse far off of Lórien, that you have seen only in our winter. For our spring and our summer are gone by, and they will never be seen on earth again save in memory.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["garden","gardening","gardens","hopeful"],"id":24495,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["gardening","life-and-living"],"id":26337,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!","author":"Sitting Bull","tags":["friends","sun","gardening "],"id":31468,"author_id":"Sitting+Bull"},{"text":"Sunflowers for Sarita is a fast-paced, high caliber romantic suspense. I couldn't stop reading!","author":"Mary Alice Monroe","tags":["faith","gardening","inspiration","romance","suspense"],"id":44113,"author_id":"Mary+Alice+Monroe"},{"text":"The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["love","gardening","plant "],"id":56647,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"},{"text":"If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.","author":"Russell Page","tags":["gardening","green-thumb","growth","understanding","verdant"],"id":60206,"author_id":"Russell+Page"},{"text":"When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.","author":"Rob Bell","tags":["earth","gardening","heaven"],"id":62470,"author_id":"Rob+Bell"},{"text":"He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard and forget her children. That was why.","author":"J.M. Coetzee","tags":["earth","gardening","war"],"id":65117,"author_id":"J.M.+Coetzee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":114,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}