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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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 thought I was growing a garden, but the garden was quietly growing me all along.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“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

“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

“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

“I wanted a home, absolutely, but it was a garden that I needed.”
― Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

“My angels, what do you say about the earth’s healing of us?
“Mother Earth just waits to have contact with you her beloved child, to cosset you, to love you, re-balance and heal anything that needs it. By touching the bare earth with your hands (such as with gardening, or by touching plants) or with your bare feet you will fully gain the blessings that she has for you in that minute. Just sit quietly for a few minutes, to soak up her healing and blessings. You will feel much calmer, more at peace and more ‘grounded’ after having direct contact with Mother Earth, your Earth Mother. While she is strong, her work is gentle and subtle and can’t be done through, the floors of houses or through an open window. You need to go outside, to feel the full benefits, of her subtle, but powerful healing.”
― Sarah Rajkotwala, Fairy Sparkles

“Spring, is a time of re-growth and renewal. It is a time when one has more garden chores to do, such as planting new seedings in the vegetable and flower gardens. Also, a time of great activity, when the grass and weeds start to grow and need to be chopped back. There is no mistake, that a lot of people start new businesses, in spring and even get married in spring. It is a time of great promise and forward movement in life.”
“So going back to the yellow flowers, they signify optimism, prosperity and action. So seeing and particularly going outside, when it is spring and spending time with the yellow flowers like the wattle and daffodils give one an increased optimism for the life and the coming season and helps people have more energy to go about the weekly jobs that spring most generously provides!”
― Sarah Rajkotwala, Fairy Sparkles

“View the sun as your mother, she loves you and only wants the very best for you. So each time you go outside, she beams her loving warm rays on your head, knowing that it will caress you with her love. The sun, being a celestial object, is far more powerful than your heater and her rays are nurturing and healing to all who inhabit earth and venture out in her. So even a few minutes of sun in the morning, or evening can last for many hours, warming, your blood, bones and systems and giving you a feeling of wellbeing like no other.”
There is no mistake, that many of the early forms of mental health treatment involved patients sitting out in the sun, for a prescribed number of hours. The sun has a natural anti-depressant effect, and when this is realized in studies in your future, the sun will again be prescribed as a good way of balancing and healing your body, mind and spirit. Along with gentle, walking and gardening daily in nature, all are ways of keeping on an even-keel mentally and emotionally.”
― Sarah Rajkotwala, Fairy Sparkles

“A rainbow always lets you know, without any shadow of a doubt, that you are never alone, you are eternally blessed, and you are dearly loved!
A rainbow is a shot from the heart of God, to the heart of a human. Never underestimate a rainbow’s presence. Because within its subtle, yet loving colours are the strength of the Divine.
A person will never be quite the same, after witnessing a rainbow’s presence. They will walk away somehow lifted and inspired, and with good reason. The rainbow comes from the hand of God.
Even after a rainbow is gone and you did not witness its presence, you will feel somehow uplifted. The atmosphere has been cleansed, with God’s love.”
― Sarah Rajkotwala, Fairy Sparkles

“So, you know about fairies? Tell me about them.
“They are all around us, they are where plants are, and some are also where plants are not. They heal and beautify and sow seeds, they are the energy behind your beloved flowers, they pollinate, cultivate and talk to the stones. They hold great knowledge of magic, plants and earth magic and manifestation. They are happy joyful creatures, if it weren’t for them, we plants would not exist, and without plants you would not be able to exist. You see, it is all a symbiotic relationship, one entity helps the other who helps the other.” – Gum Trees”
― Sarah Rajkotwala, The Year of Talking to Plants: The Plants and Fairies Talk in Their Own Words

“Does it improve the atmosphere of the garden, the more flowers there are in a garden?
“Yes of course, we all have flowers for the contribution they make to the overall peace and happiness and harmony of an area. The more flowers there are the more peaceful, happy and harmonious the garden is. Who could stay grumpy or sad in a garden full of flowers? If the flowers are brought indoors in huge bunches, then the atmosphere inside the home is improved greatly with more harmonious relations between people, and peaceful and happy feelings encouraged.”

Then I asked the freesias, what are the roles of flower scent to humans in the garden?
“Fragrances lift the vibrational frequencies of an area, garden or room. If the fragrance is of a natural origin, preferably floral, then there are certain blessings attached to smelling it. It heightens the thoughts of humans in the vicinity and helps soothe bad moods or argumentative residents. Fragrance is also a bridge between the human and angelic worlds and helps communication between species. Do not underestimate the power of fragrance; it can change the mood and situations in whole regions. All the while, the residents remain oblivious, to the fragrance’s pivotal importance, in the natural world. Without fragrance, the world would be a poorer place.”
“Fragrance helps lighten one’s mood, and countenance and help lift depression and lethargy. Fragrance plays a big role in why people are more energetic in spring, once all the flowers in blossom come out en-masse.”
― Sarah Rajkotwala, The Year of Talking to Plants: The Plants and Fairies Talk in Their Own Words

“Do not disturb my plants—they are rooted in peace, and disturbing them stirs more than just the soil. It unsettles everything around them, including my very soul.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya