Best Gardens Sayings
314 Gardens quotes by 241 unique authors
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I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made…
— Ian Hamilton Finlay
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have…
— Ian Hamilton Finlay
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One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all gardeners get by…
— Margery Fish
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There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at heart. Gardening simply…
— Allan Armitage
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In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.
— Unknown Author
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Gardening is about communication, relationships, routines and life-enrichment. Gardens are places that connect us to the seasons and the life cycle. They're a vehicle for…
— Costa Georgiadis
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In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's…
— Costa Georgiadis
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It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.
— Costa Georgiadis
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It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am…
— Gabrielle Hamilton
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In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and…
— Unknown Author
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Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.
— Penelope Hobhouse
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It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million,…
— Richard Leakey
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I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens…
— Rick Wakeman
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Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.
— Peter Sloterdijk
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I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.
— Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.
— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
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Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure…
— Beverley Nichols
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Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the reason the wise…
— Anthony de Mello
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Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.
— Thomas Browne
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We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety.…
— Jean Plaidy
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And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if…
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.
— Ken Wilber
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