Garden Quotes · Page 46

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

— Zoe Wanamaker

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

We had a trampoline in the garden that I used to play on lots which was great exercise.

— Ellie Simmonds

Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration.

— Piet Oudolf

Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.

— John Evelyn

“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, no culture comparable to that of the garden...But though…

— Thomas Jefferson

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

— Phyllis McGinley

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with…

— Samuel Johnson

“Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of…

— Andrew Carnegie

And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can…

— Haruki Murakami

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have…

— Peter Zumthor

Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are…

— Margaret Sanger

“Eternity can be found in the minuscule, in the place where earthworms, along with billions of unseen soil-dwelling microorganisms, engage in a…

— Amy Stewart

Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats…

— Mirabel Osler

A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges,…

— Dick Gregory

“But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Mowing the lawn, I felt like I was battling the earth rather than working it; each week it sent forth a green…

— Michael Pollan

When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by…

— R. C. Sproul

There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can…

— Russell Page

What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to…

— Richard Louv

So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least…

— Richard Dawkins

All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman,…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

“In the space of a single year, a crumbling rural village had sprouted an army town, like a great parasitical growth. The…

— Ernst Jünger

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

— Anonymous

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

— John Muir

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

— George Santayana

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that…

— E. P. Thompson

It was always like that. After school, we would eat and then it was straight into the garden to play football. We…

— Bukayo Saka

A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it.

— Pope Francis

How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm…

— Thom Gunn

All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.

— Allen Lacy

It's always been a dream of mine to fight at Madison Square Garden, and it's something I really relish.

— Gennady Golovkin

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

— William Wordsworth

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day…

— Brian Andreas

“When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine.”

— Rumi

This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

“It is the garden dseigner's job to hide the vulgar and the common as far as the eye can see and include…

— Andrew Crofts

Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the…

— Sylvia Earle

It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.

— Marion Dudley Cran