Garden Quotes

It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden.

Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden.

Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.

Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.

All of the worlds problems can be solved in the garden

A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.

No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement

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 (unrefrigerated).

Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.

I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.

Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something beautiful about ourselves.

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

I wouldn't trust Newcastle's back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them.

If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.

I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.

After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.

From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye.

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

This garden has a soul, I know its moods.