Garden Quotes
Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul.
But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.
As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
You can drive the devil out of your garden but you will find him again in the garden of your son.
Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not
It isn't the kind of profession that you have that makes you flourish; it's what you are coming from, within, that makes you flourish. Then everything that you step into turns into your garden.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.
Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.
For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that... I made 287 lbs of jam..."
In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes.
Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.
To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.
In the fullness of time, when it is our turn to give, we must in turn plant gardens that we may never eat the fruit of, which will benefit the generations to come.
The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.
If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.
Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.
All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.
As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.
There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.
Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
A miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept our new responsibility to collectively tend the Garden, rather than fight over the turf.
Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.
I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.
Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is adorned with flowers, that is, with acts of virtue.
Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.
In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.
It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.
It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.
Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.
I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.
Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
