Gardens Quotes

314 quotes by 251 authors

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets… — Diane Ackerman
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. — Joseph Addison
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry
Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all… — Annie Besant
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking… — Yoshida Kenko
You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the… — Nhat Hanh
The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows. — Vita Sackville-West
They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain… — Thomas More
The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out… — Ken Wilber
In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to do… — Violet Fane
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson
I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green… — Alfred Leslie Rowse
Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time. — Ezra Pound
Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. — H E Bates
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden. — Walter Scott
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt… — Lewis Gannett
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. — Robert Bridges
I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes… — Gertrude Jekyll

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