Garden Quotes

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

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

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

I never promised you a rose garden.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.

And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.

There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!

In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.

People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.

We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it's our garden that is really nurturing us.

in my garden I pick a musk melon feeling like a thief

You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.

I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.

We must cultivate our own garden.