Garden Quotes

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.

I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife.

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive.

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.

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.

Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals.

A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And grow a fair amount of nettles.

We're in Madison Square Garden, I can't let you beat me in Madison Square Garden, are you serious!?

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow.

God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.

How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

The summer breeze was blowing on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden

A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.

Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

somtimes people say that you can not live your dreams. sometimes people say that you can not sell out madison square garden. well this is what i tell them-NEVER SAY NEVER

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')