Chaos Quote by Anonymous

I have learnt that gardens are like happiness: you cannot pursue them as an absolute thing or moment.

— Monty Don

“Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast extent upon…

— Tom Turner

Nature abhors a garden.

— Michael Pollan

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

— Rumer Godden

“Gardens by their very nature are fragile beings that live in the two dimensions of time and care.”

— Joe Eck

Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human…

— Diane Ackerman

It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.

— Costa Georgiadis

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set…

— Dorothy Gilman

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor…

— Andrew Weil

Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction.

— Jane Garmey

How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience of nature…

— David E. Cooper

“Gardens take many years to make. One cannot just plant stuff and presto—there is a garden. No, gardens have energy. Like houses, they become…

— Donna Goddard