My Garden Quotes

Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.

I said (to Daniel Jones), 'You realise I'm always going to be The Guy From Savage Garden'. He said, 'How do you think I feel? I'm The Other One From Savage Garden!'

Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.

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 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.

More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.

I am in love with the green earth.

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

I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.

I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

In God’s garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit...

Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants

It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.

In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.

I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.

Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours.

At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.

To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.

In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware, beware! Touch not the roses growing there, For every rose a thorn doth bear.

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.

Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.

A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.

Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.

You can solve all the world's problems in a garden.

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.

How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

Our female bodies are connected with nature just like a garden.

There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.

The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.

In the garden of your days cultivate festivity, play and celebrations.

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.

A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.