Garden Quotes

What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.

Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.

I love a garden and a book.

Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.

An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining.

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.

The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.

My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.

A garden is not a picture, but a language.

Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.

What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears.

A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.

In the beginning was the dog the real name of Jehovah is Rover. Adam's rib is buried in the garden

Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor. And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to that garden or is yet to be grown.

God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the "romance of possibility".

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.

To garden is a solitary act.

Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to sitting in the garden.

To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.

At the front of my home, in the garden, is a huge piece of clear quartz.

Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.

Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.

Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.

With six small diamonds for his eyes He walks upon the summer skies, Drawing from his silken blouse The lacework of his dwelling house.

The best crop of a garden, year after year, is hope.

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me; For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

Love, the life-giving garden of this world.

Patience is the Gnostic's scale and the humble the garden's door.

The year is ended, and it only adds to my age; Spring has come, but I must take leave of my home. Alas, that the trees in this eastern garden, Without me, will still bear flowers.

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.