My wife is a flower of the garden and I am her fence…

Never strike your wife, even with a flower.

— Nikhil Saluja

I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for…

— Siri Hustvedt

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles,…

— Benjamin Franklin

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had…

— Quentin Crisp

Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five…

— Dogen

In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.

— Jakob Bohme

The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.

— Costa Georgiadis

Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to…

— Mirabel Osler

The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what…

— Alice Morse Earle

“Here, in the garden at night, it is another world, strange and yet friendly and familiar, never frightening. There is such quietness, such sweetness,…

— Susan Hill

Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,…

— Aldous Huxley

Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy…

— Rabindranath Tagore

There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with…

— Mitch Hedberg

“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,…

— Michael Pollan

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

— Esther Meynell