Garden Quotes · Page 14

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

— Rudyard Kipling

Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

— Walt Whitman

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

— John Steinbeck

In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

— Anonymous

A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

— Edwin Lutyens

The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is.

— Nikki Yanofsky

Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self cannot be known.

— John P. Conger

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

— Edmund Burke

I've been meditating since 14 years and my mornings are spent in the building garden.

— Dia Mirza

I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

“Mizzy has, again, wandered into the garden, like a child who feels no fealty to adult conversation.”

— Michael Cunningham

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

— Beau Bridges

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

— Chris Rea

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

— Zach Braff

“I will admit you are the finest if not the loveliest rose in the garden. But you see, my dear, I was…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids…

— Stephen Graham

A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close…

— Beverley Nichols

The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in…

— Texas Bix Bender

Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently…

— Neltje Blanchan

... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the…

— Gregory Maguire

I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not…

— James Branch Cabell

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control…

— Michael Pollan

Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a…

— Shirley Hibberd

The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was…

— Charles Darwin

When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I don't think people are like, "I'm going to save the planet by planting my own herbs." But on environmental issues like…

— Novella Carpenter

if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven or a fragile heaven…

— e. e. cummings

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded…

— Tayeb Salih

[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks…

— Anonymous

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small…

— Maria Edgeworth

I think London is made up of tiny little pockets and villages, and lots of little sub-cultures. So, especially for an actor,…

— Scarlett Alice Johnson

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

— Martha Smith

Patience is the Gnostic's scale and the humble the garden's door.

— Samael Aun Weor

“If I can’t garden in it, then I won’t wear it.”

— Fennel Hudson

The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.

— Antal Szerb

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

— Thomas Berry

God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.

— Meister Eckhart

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

— George Bernard Shaw

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison