Garden Quotes · Page 17

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Rumi

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

— Abraham Cowley

Even the most colorful garden appear like a graveyard without you.

— Shalini

In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

— Alexander Smith

Performing at Madison Square Garden is a real honor, so we had a lot of fun.

— Jessica Jung

To an ignorant, a small garden is a forest.

— Vikrant Parsai

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

— Ken Kesey

I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

— Horace

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is…

— Julie Andrews

Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is adorned with…

— Paul of the Cross

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

— Jeanette Winterson

Who would have thought it possible that a tiny flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for…

— Sophie Scholl

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be…

— Mary Astell

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

— Dale Carnegie

Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

I will garden on the double run, my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes, and trust in fate to keep me poor…

— Richard Hugo

At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids.…

— Anonymous

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. In most of our human relationships, we spend much…

— Ram Dass

A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it…

— Ellen Potter

Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether…

— Pete Munro

You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling…

— Virginia Woolf

Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird…

— Jenny Downham

The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form…

— Lauren Oliver

This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Working with some real dirt seemed fitting for a woman whose hands felt like they would remain forever filthy. She decided to…

— Ken Goldman --From SINKHOLE

“The path has a cottage garden on both sides; clumps of old-fashioned flowers ran all over each other: lamb's ear, mint, &…

— Susan Branch

“Most of this is my contribution to Havenhurst,” she told him proudly. The sight that Ian beheld when he looked up made…

— Judith McNaught

Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen…

— Grace Paley

The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there…

— Anonymous

I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where…

— William Blake

My heart is a garden tired with autumn, Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark, In the hazy sunshine, the…

— Sara Teasdale

Let's all sign petitions to make Earthships and organic home gardens the normality.

— Syesha Mercado

Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

— Voltaire

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.

— William Howard Adams

All decisions at the Garden I make on my own.

— James L. Dolan

Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

— Jeremiah

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

— Henry David Thoreau

There's no "right way" to garden, only what suits each person and place.

— Janet Macunovich

“A gardin is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death”

— Tiffany Baker