Claims Quote by Anna Akhmatova

In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to…

— Violet Fane

When loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in the shadows…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping…

— James Lane Allen

“I love my garden, and I love working in it. To potter with green growing things, watching each day to see the dear, new…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“I think of my own life, how it embraces a great quest to know every cog of nature--the names of oaks and ferns, the…

— Janisse Ray

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

— Diane Ackerman

“With the Wit, one is aware of all the life that surrounds one. It was not just the warmth of the mare nearby that…

— Robin Hobb

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

— Peter Tosh

“Connection with gardens, even small ones, even potted plants, can become windows to the inner life. The simple act of stopping and looking at…

— Patricia R. Barrett

Your garden will reveal yourself.

— Henry Mitchell

I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should…

— Henry David Thoreau

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts…

— Abram L. Urban