Garden Quotes · Page 54

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

— Alan Chadwick

The most beautiful garden is always the one that we have made it with our own efforts!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best…

— Penelope Hobhouse

Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who…

— Brigham Young

I don't ask questions. I just figure the extra warm days are God's way of rewarding me for Garden State

— Zach Braff

After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting…

— Karel Capek

May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the…

— Libba Bray

I think gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. True gardeners are both iconographers and theologians insofar as these activities are the…

— Vigen Guroian

A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.

— Paulo Coelho

...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and…

— Anonymous

Your garden will reveal yourself.

— Henry Mitchell

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.

— Lynn Anderson

I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even…

— Chris Bohjalian

Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in with a weed…

— Walter Murch

Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.

— Esther Perel

If you offer fasting with humility and with mercy, your bones, as Isaiah said, shall be fat, and you shall be like…

— Ambrose

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

— Tom Turner

The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby…

— Alice B. Toklas

These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to…

— Rachel Carson

My neighbor's not even listening to me. He's all excited about some garden hose he bought at Brookstone. He's convinced it was…

— Bill Burr

[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy…

— Mary Mapes Dodge

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.

— Cate Blanchett

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it.…

— Thalassa Cruso

English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate…

— Alan Coren

A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.

— Amy N. Stewart