Gardens Quotes
314 quotes by 251 authors
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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
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
— Joseph Addison
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
— Wendell Berry
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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
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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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
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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
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The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
— Vita Sackville-West
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain…
— Thomas More
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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
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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
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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
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Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
— E. O. Wilson
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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
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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
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Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.
— H E Bates
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Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
— Walter Scott
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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
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I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
— Robert Bridges
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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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