Garden Quotes

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic.

A garden is never finished.

Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with

A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!

so i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while.

Anyone starting to garden... would be wise to look around carefully and see what grows well in other people's yards.

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August night.

Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.

Flowers are my music.

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.

I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.

And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.

My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.

The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.

If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the s*** knocked out of me

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.

Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.

Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.