Dream Quote by Bess Streeter Aldrich

A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.

— Amy N. Stewart

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

— Beverley Nichols

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in…

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

— Stanley Crawford

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty.…

— Thomas Moore

“You're not a gardener, are you? So perhaps you don't know that once a garden is established, much of good gardening is about removal…

— Rosalie Parker

When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate…

— Muso Soseki

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

— John Henry Newman

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.

— Claire Tomalin

Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s…

— Anonymous

A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his…

— Roberto Burle Marx

Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed,…

— Ruskin Bond