Garden Quotes

I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.

If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path

Be kind to your garden and be gentle on your back!

Friends are flowers in life's garden.

"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot."

Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?

Failure is the only thing I've ever been a success at.

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

As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where its packed every night, theres nothing like it.

The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

There's a black rose growing in your garden.

Leave no stone unturned in your quest to disrupt a rock garden.

How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple arbor.

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies.

In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance.

I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

I never promised you a rose garden.

Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.

What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.

Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

I remember what a thrill it was to go from the back streets of Birmingham to Madison Square Garden in New York...it's like playing on Mars. You can't buy that.

A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.

I would love this place to be my garden. (on Arsenal's old stadium)

Walking around an early spring garden- going nowhere.

Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it.

So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.

An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.