My Garden Quotes

To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

A garden is half made when it is well planned.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.

There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden.

O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die.

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

Nature abhors a garden.

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.

While drinking, while talking, while writing, while watering our garden, it's always possible to practice living in the here and the now.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

We’ll meet again in Lvov, my love and I…” Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.

A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.

Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow

Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.

It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.

If you're kept off the debates, you can't reach more two percent of people even if you campaign every state and fill the big conventions like Madison Square Garden.

All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

I am the fonder of my garden for all the trouble it gives me, and the grudging reward that my unending labours exact.

An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?

My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.