Garden Quotes

I have a garden in my backyard that's completely organic, which I'm very proud of.

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.

My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains.

John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

I am a huge fan of Jessica Lange. I think her performance in Grey Gardens is amazing.

Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven.

This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.

Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.

Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.

An album is a garden, not for show Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow.

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

In the end, there is really nothing more important than taking care of the earth and letting it take care of you.

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

I love paperwhites - they smell heavenly and you can often pick them up from a big home improvement store garden center already planted in pretty terra cotta pots.

The CEO of the Olive Garden blames his company's low profits on Obamacare - which is odd because most people won't eat at the Olive Garden until they have health insurance.

I have learned that you can communicate on a very deep level with any living form. Thats why my gardens bloom and my animals are so healthy-because I communicate with them.

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.

I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul.

Every creature and plant is part of her (mother nature's) amazing interconnected garden... The whole world is a garden.

People sometimes say to me: "Craig, get out of my garden."

I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.

You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o’clock in the morning with a meat cleaver and a hard-on can’t be much fun.

Wayne's like my son, Brooklyn, who goes out in the garden to play and have fun.

The City that God is building for you and me, not even death can pass its gates! God's City of Tomorrow, His garden of the gods, will have no pain nor death nor sorrow!

The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!

Those of us who have received Jesus Christ as our Saviour and our Lover and our King already have the Garden of Eden and Paradise restored in our hearts!

The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and nature - that presuppose one another.

In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.

Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.

I want you to know you're in my heart... growing into a beautiful garden.

Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter.

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.

However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?