I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
ûUr heart is a nice garden but I dont want to be a rose in it i want to be grass in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love nature like nothing else. Before I moved to Switzerland, my home was a flat in London with a garden. In… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working… — Olga Broumas Copy Share Image
We’ll meet again in Lvov, my love and I…” Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms And flames laid waste our world, All that was left me was a… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
“The feathery palms that lined the drainage canals, the acacia thorns and sycamores, all glistened with the sheen of new, pale-green leaves,… — Pauline Gedge Copy Share Image
I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace overlooking the… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a… — Samuel Foote Copy Share Image
You sleep with a dream of summer weather, wake to the thrum of rain—roped down by rain. Nothing out there but drop-heavy… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The garden flourished that summer because Magnus's mother was determined to feed her family despite the depredations of the distant war. In… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden. — Michael Winner Copy Share Image
Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals. — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. … Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden. — Paul Nicklen Copy Share Image
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting. — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
“Though death is its precise reason for existence, in this garden, life—overwhelmingly—is the victor.” — Cyrus Mistry Copy Share Image
After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but… — Irina Shayk Copy Share Image
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all. — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
Tools can rule men sooner than they expect; the plow makes man the lord of the garden but also the refugee from… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image