Garden Quotes

“COOK AND, IF YOU CAN, PLANT A GARDEN.”

— Michael Pollan

“Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts,”

— Dean Koontz

“Always leave behind a garden.”

— Toni Orrill

The market is the best garden.

— George Herbert

Madison Square Garden is a big deal.

— Mike Campbell

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

— Myrtle Reed

I am in love with the green earth.

— Charles Lamb

Silence is the garden of thought.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

I want you to know you're in my heart... growing into a beautiful garden.

— Delta Goodrem

An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining...

— Francis Brett Young

When you increase the number of gardens, you increase the number of heavens too!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.

— Anonymous

A garden is mainly ...a space around which interests can be accumulated.

— Graham Stuart Thomas

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds!

— Bettie Page

“It is not only me devoted to your kindness and beauty; walk in the gardens, you will find birds singing your name.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden...…

— Charles Dudley Warner

I love my garden. I love my privacy. I'm very fierce about it. I try not to let too many people into…

— Julie Andrews

“Each backyard is a self-contained world, pulsing with its own rhythm and brimming with stories yet to unfold.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“A person who takes a concrete place and convert it into a garden of flowers is a real magician!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

— Mark Haddon

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.

— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

“One can look at an unkempt garden and see nothing, or we can choose to see its wonder between its riotous chaos.”

— Wulf Francú Godgluck

It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes.…

— Maxim Gorky

Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle,…

— Tom Turner

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One…

— Robert Bly

Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized it. I knew I should…

— Dorianne Laux

Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless…

— Caroline Paul

I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the…

— Gertrude Jekyll

“Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast…

— Tom Turner

I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just…

— Gertrude Jekyll

In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a…

— Donald Judd

I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to…

— Greg Peterson

I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily…

— Anonymous

I don't know Hillary's Clinton stance on urban farming. I don't know Donald Trump's stance or Bernie Sanders's for that matter. But…

— Novella Carpenter

In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at…

— Voltaire

Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the…

— John Smith

A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that…

— Jim Nollman