Today is Tolkien Reading Day! Here’s ten Tolkien quotes about gardening, simplicity, and hope, to inspire your springtime efforts. And if you need some music to help get in the mood, check out this ultimate rendition of Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold!
“But also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense… The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.”
Tolkien
I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food …. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor… I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.
J. R. R. Tolkien
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Tolkien
True education is a kind of never ending story โ a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
Tolkien
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead
Tolkien
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Tolkien
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
Tolkien
It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
Tolkien
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
Tolkien
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