Garden Quotes

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

We must cultivate our own garden.

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

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

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.

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

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

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've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

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.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.

Gardening is the best therapy in the world.

One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.

When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him.

In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens.

I have amethyst geodes by my meditation - yoga room and large rose quartz throughout my back garden.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.

Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project.

A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.

Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.

I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

Use plants to bring life

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself

I never cease to be thrilled when entering my own gateway... and always feel that entrance gardens should give the first sensation of rest to those returning home.

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

It is crazy even to ask what creativity is. It would be just as useful to interview a caraway plant in your garden and ask: "How did you decided to be a spice?"

The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.

Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.

Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.