My Garden Quotes

Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

The garden that is finished is dead.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph.

A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.

Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?

As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.

When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.

A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.

When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

When your garden is finished I hope it will be more beautiful that you anticipated, require less care than you expected, and have cost only a little more than you had planned.

Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.

Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste after all.

Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration.

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

To dwell is to garden.

I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.

Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.

If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned.

The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy

When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.

Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.

Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.

My heart is a garden tired with autumn.

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

He who makes a garden Works hand in hand with God.

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything?

I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of his own.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.