Gardening Quotes · Page 67

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

— Simone Weil

When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

— Yvon Chouinard

Imagination is the garden of our mind where seeds of thoughts are cultivated.

— Kishore Bansal

“Searching for a fruitful tree is better than sitting in a fruitless garden.”

— Shaikh Mahmud bin Ilyas

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

— Chogyam Trungpa

“Clean air; bird song; fresh flowers; and the leaves unfurling on the twigs.”

— Pierre D'Alverne

Take all the garden spills, inveterate, prodigal spender just as summer goes.

— Anonymous

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

— Gore Vidal

Your life is your garden, your thoughts are your seeds, if your life isn't awesome, you've been watering the weeds.

— Nishan Panwar

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

— Claude Monet

For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better…

— John Denver

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

— Charles Baudelaire

In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.

— Allen Lacy

“Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden.”

— William S. Burroughs

“A muscular hulking figure walked steadfastly toward her, naked yet festooned with plant life. Every inch of the being was covered with…

— Pete Kahle

“Methinks I see the sunset light flooding the river valley, the western hills stretching to the horizon, overhung with trees gorgeous and…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

I meet people who use the term "plant spirit" as a matter of course. Initially I thought they were all rather woo-woo,…

— Zoe Helene

You are the drop,and the ocean you are kindness,you are anger, you are sweetness,you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened.…

— Anonymous

Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of…

— Gerald Durrell

“...Bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters. Give ye a sweet odor as frankincense. Send forth flowers, as…

— Douai-Rheims Bible

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the…

— Robert Fortune

Deep at the bottom of the well no warmth has yet returned, The rain which sighs and feels so cold has dampened…

— Su Shi

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

— E. B. White

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

— Virginia Woolf

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

— Alexander Smith

Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.

— Anonymous

“Independence is like a flower that nurtures itself in the light of another.”

— Zephyr A. McIntyre

“The absence of suffocating humidity and carnivorous plants was appreciated.”

— Brandon Mull

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

— William Shenstone

An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?

— Candace Bushnell

“Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

— C. Z. Guest

To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

— Louise Wilder

“Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.”

— Rumi

“Even the wisest among you is only a conflict and hybrid of plant and ghost.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.

— Anonymous