My Garden Quotes

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.

Let us cultivate our garden.

This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.

Your garden will reveal yourself.

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.

Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

Like people, plants respond to extra attention.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home. While you look for trinkets The treasure house awaits you in your own being.

Adam, who said to our Lord in the Garden of Eden, I got more ribs - you got more broads? Never got a dinner!

O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control! O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers! O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!

We should not feel separate from nature, we are a part of it. We need to cover our footprints.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

Carry your groceries, garden, and do other activities that keep you moving. You will add more years to your life and more life to your years.

Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.

Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.

If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.

All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.

Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.

I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King.

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.

All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.

I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

I am in love with the green earth.

An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!