I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
“The fruit of the garden is not restricted to what we eat. Every garden lends something more to the imagination - beauty.” — Vigen Guroian Copy Share Image
I used to laugh at my friends who garden, but I now garden. You don't even feel like you're exercising. You're having… — Harley Pasternak Copy Share Image
Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is! — Peter Cundall Copy Share Image
“By some tear in the wish fabric, or the casting of a prayer, or the falling of some lonely star, the enchanted… — Ansul Noor Copy Share Image
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and… — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks… — Sara Bonnett Stein Copy Share Image
“Just as Patience read the people in Granite Point, searching for the troubled bits in their bodies or hearts, and Nettie collected… — Ellen Herrick Copy Share Image
I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres… — J. D. Sedding Copy Share Image
What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I went round the side of the house, and stared at the garden in horror. The ivy had almost taken over. There… — Jacqueline Wilson Copy Share Image
God! I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give… — John Muir Copy Share Image
If I- if I competed in Bruno Sammartino's era, I'd have been champion for 20 years, too. No, I'd have been champion… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
“The kitchen garden satisfies both requirements, a thing 0f beauty and a joy for dinner.” — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh? — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers. — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom. — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I can hardly keep wondering at my own folly in thinking it worthwhile to leave my books and garden, even for one… — William Wyndam Grenville Copy Share Image
Let whoever wants to, relax in the south, And bask in the garden of paradise. Here is the essence of north—and it's… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man. — Julius Sterling Morton Copy Share Image
Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt. — Charles Keating Copy Share Image
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“You have planted many seeds in the garden of possibilities. Meditation is the art removing the weeds from the garden of possibilities.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The pond garden is an intricate phenomenon coalescing the intent and will of various people of influence living at various times.” — Norris Brock Johnson Copy Share Image