Garden Quotes · Page 18

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

— Miranda Richardson

A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.

— George Herbert

I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

— Rumi

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

— Mary Stewart

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

— John Lennon

there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.

— Barbara Mertz

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

— W. H. Davies

To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.

— Christopher Tunnard

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make…

— Will Durant

“In the garden of dreams, there are many great seeds of possibilities waiting to sprout - looking for your attention - the…

— Amit Ray

We were brought up with having a love of your garden, having somewhere you can go in, it's your little sanctuary, you…

— Ainsley Harriott

...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a…

— Anita Desai

I've always thought of L.A. as the modern version of 'The Garden of Earthly Delights.'

— Michael Connelly

Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

— Dannie Abse

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

— Jamaica Kincaid

But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.

— Ani DiFranco

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any…

— David Hockney

One reason we planted the White House vegetable garden was to set an example about what food can mean, but to also…

— Michelle Obama

The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating…

— Freeman Dyson

The first breach was in My Garden, and because you were willing to stand in the coldness that that breach had caused…

— Chuck Pierce

Then he kissed her, not just a brush of lips as she'd done, but a kiss a kiss that scalded her tongue.…

— Melissa Marr

How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience…

— David E. Cooper

Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare…

— Washington Irving

And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And…

— Osip Mandelstam

It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should…

— Francesca Lia Block

Why are you smiling?' Gargarin asked Froi, from across the balconette. 'When you're going to have to learn a lesson in diplomacy…

— Melina Marchetta

Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm…

— Sigrid Undset

With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets…

— Angela Carter

“In the country, spring is a time of small happenings happening quietly, hyacinth shoots thrusting in a garden, willows burning with a…

— Truman Capote

The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which…

— Wendell Berry

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the…

— Jane Austen

There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

— May Sarton

There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.

— Ruth Stout

It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

— Anonymous

After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds!

— Bettie Page

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

— Richard K. Diran

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

— Nhat Hanh

Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.

— Ian Hamilton Finlay