Gardens Quotes · Page 4

I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory.

— Emmanuelle Seigner

Whitstable Castle has some lovely gardens that are certainly worth a look.

— David Essex

Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.

— Peter Sloterdijk

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.

— Paulo Coelho

Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

— Thomas Browne

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

— Rumi

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

— Lillie Langtry

We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set…

— Alice Morse Earle

There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the…

— Tom Turner

“But friendship meant you at least planted the seed for them, love meant allowing them the ability to weed their own garden…

— Shannon Noelle Long

“Gardens are poems Where you stroll with your hands in your pockets. (Les jardins sont des poemes Ou l'on se promene les…

— Pierre Albert-Birot

I was born in Queens and spent many years there. After I got married, I moved to Kew Gardens, then moved to…

— Bob Sheppard

They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more…

— Ina Garten

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into…

— Hal Boyle

I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding,…

— Elton John

Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care,…

— Dan Buettner

“--Gardens, not buildings-- Great projects start out feeling like buildings. There are architects, materials, staff, rigid timelines, permits, engineers, a structure. It…

— Seth Godin

As for the meaning of gardens, particular gardens may have, of course, all sorts of different meanings - emotive, historical, emblematic, religious,…

— David E. Cooper

There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And…

— Ted Danson

“Somewhere there are gardens where peacocks sing like nightingales, somewhere there are caravans of separated lovers traveling to meet each other; there…

— K.J. Bishop

I think what's great about your community is that it's different than anyone else's. Look around. What do you want to change?…

— Debby Ryan

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

— Russell Page

Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.

— Penelope Hobhouse

If I could plant a flower for every time I miss you, I could walk through my garden forever.

— Anonymous

I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.

— Hubert de Givenchy

“I’m very headstrong. Once I’ve caught fire, there’s no dousing the flames—all engines full speed ahead.”

— Adachi Zenko

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

— Elton John

Let stars shine in your eyes and laughter wrapped you this is the greatest joy of life.

— Kishore Bansal

“The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy.”

— Adachi Zenko

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

— Robert Wilson

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

— Anonymous

“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

“The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path,…

— F.T. McKinstry

I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during…

— Ed Westwick

“A passionate look, touch or a hug on a plant is enough to open your inner eyes than going for a serious…

— Karthikeyan V

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if…

— Diane Ackerman

The Garden Was My Delight. I grew up with gardeners and I just love gardens. I was always very much aware that…

— Hazel Hawke

But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as…

— Libba Bray