My Garden Quotes
The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life.
My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!
A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.
I went out into the garden in the morning dusk, When sorrow enveloped me like a cloud; And the breeze brought to my nostril the odor of spices, As balm of healing for a sick soul.
When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.
There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.
The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.
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.
In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?
It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.
Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.
If you can't smell the fragrance don't come into the garden of Love. if you are unwilling to undress don't enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are, don't come our way
After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.
Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream.
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.
One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.
A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.
Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.
Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.
Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.
Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.
I like to see and understand a space, to hear everyone's point of view in order to respond to many different needs.
To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.
When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.
Rick Perry is qualified to be President in the same way that Olive Garden is qualified to be Italy.
